I believe this is discussed and decided quite early on: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19kfhro7-CnBdFqFk7l4_HmwaH2JT_Rhw5-2FLWLEGGk/edit#heading=h.hkbmpl4oi

I believe this is discussed and decided quite early on: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19kfhro7-CnBdFqFk7l4_HmwaH2JT_Rhw5-2FLWLEGGk/edit#heading=h.hkbmpl4oics4 https://docs.google.com/document/d/19kfhro7-CnBdFqFk7l4_Hmwa... >According to the Import Compatiability Rule for versioned Go, this implies that the new proto package must have a new import path. Since "github.com/protobuf/proto/v2" will incur great confusion with the proto2 syntax, we may take this time to use an import path like "google.golang.org/proto" (similar to how gRPC lives at "google.golang.org/grpc").