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The change proposed in this KIP is to add an extra option as stated above and to migrate create, delete, list and describe operations to use a broker connection. This would be a backward compatible change, meaning the zookeeper way option would be still available and fully working until a further point in time but hopefully would deprecate it as part of this KIP.

Specific behavior changes

• Providing --bootstrap-server and --zookeeper together would result in an exception as they should be mutually exclusive.
• Deleting an internal topic is allowed by the protocol and thus by this command as well. If this feature is not desirable, then ALCs must be set accordingly on the server side.

Compatibility, Deprecation, And Migration Plan

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