in reply to Rationale for why successive Perl releases are not XS-compatible?

Perl 5 Porters are the authority you speak of. You can contact them through their mailing list. Perhaps it would be prudent to peruse the archives (in the same link) before reaching out in case it's been brought up before.

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Re^2: Rationale for why successive Perl releases are not XS-compatible?
by vrk (Chaplain) on Mar 17, 2017 at 15:51 UTC

    A quick search with a favourite search engine shows it has been discussed a couple of times in the past few years, so I'll need to spend some time reading through the archives.