The donation of the java-driver is ready for its IP Clearance vote.
https://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/cassandra-java-driver.html
The SGA has been sent to the ASF. This does not require acknowledgement
before the vote.
Once the vote passes, and the SGA has been filed by the ASF Secretary,
There are some completely valid points here, but you are conflating internode
messaging with native (aka client) protocol somewhat. Since native protocol V5
in C* 4.0, there is a degree of code re-use between the two, native protocol
having adopted the framing model and resource allocation from
