[chore][VERSIONING.md] Changing protocol support for security is allowed #10460
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Description
We have recently discussed bumping the minimum TLS version to follow security best practices.
Since we are about to stabilize
configtls
(see #10344), I raised the question of whether this would be a breaking change that should be done before 1.0.I argue that we should be allowed to do this after 1.0 because:
While this is not a security issue but a security best practice, the golang/go issue seems to indicate that changes like this would be in the spirit of the Go 1 version compatibility promise.