In v1.0, we discovered after code freeze that the reference does clipnorm-before-reduce. Mathematically, that is not as good as clipnom-after-reduce, but since it was after code freeze, we decided to allow either, but not let submitters take advantage of perf optimizations from clipnorm-after-reduce.
For v1.1, we should change the reference before code freeze, and allow optimizations.
In v1.0, we discovered after code freeze that the reference does clipnorm-before-reduce. Mathematically, that is not as good as clipnom-after-reduce, but since it was after code freeze, we decided to allow either, but not let submitters take advantage of perf optimizations from clipnorm-after-reduce.
For v1.1, we should change the reference before code freeze, and allow optimizations.