KIP-201 — Rationalising Policy interfaces

Discussion AdminBroker

KIP-201 proposes rationalising Kafka's broker-side policy interfaces (`CreateTopicPolicy`, `AlterConfigPolicy`) into a unified, consistent API with a common lifecycle and configuration contract. The existing policy interfaces have inconsistent method signatures and lack a `close()` lifecycle hook, making it difficult to implement policies that hold resources.

Protocol Impact

CreateTopics · DeleteTopics · DeleteRecords · AlterConfigs · CreatePartitions

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