Status

Current state: [One of "Under Discussion", "Accepted", "Rejected"]

Discussion thread: here [Change the link from the KIP proposal email archive to your own email thread]

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Describe the problems you are trying to solve.

Public Interfaces

Briefly list any new interfaces that will be introduced as part of this proposal or any existing interfaces that will be removed or changed. The purpose of this section is to concisely call out the public contract that will come along with this feature.

A public interface is any change to the following:

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Binary log format

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The network protocol and api behavior

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Any class in the public packages under clientsConfiguration, especially client configuration

• org/apache/kafka/common/serialization

• org/apache/kafka/common

• org/apache/kafka/common/errors

• org/apache/kafka/clients/producer

• org/apache/kafka/clients/consumer (eventually, once stable)

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Monitoring

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Command line tools and arguments

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Proposed Changes

Describe the new thing you want to do in appropriate detail. This may be fairly extensive and have large subsections of its own. Or it may be a few sentences. Use judgement based on the scope of the change.

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