FYI: Formalizing IETF Interoperability Reporting

• From: Mark Nottingham <mark.nottingham@bea.com>
• Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 21:21:41 -0700
• To: Paul Downey <paul.downey@whatfettle.com>
• Cc: public-ws-addressing@w3.org
• Message-Id: <A341753C-589E-4929-A5E6-0E1EAD1DE116@bea.com>

I found this interesting, in light of our current CR discussions;

> This document suggests another way of reforming IETF standards
>    process by formalizing the mechanism for interoperability  
> reporting,
>    as a way of facilitating standards development.  It establishes two
>    kinds of reports: a 'Protocol Feature Set', which lays out the  
> set of
>    features from IETF specifications that constitute a protocol, and a
>    'Protocol Implementation Report', which is submitted by an  
> individual
>    or group to report on implementation and interoperability testing.

http://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-newtrk-interop- 
reports-00.txt

Larry goes on to talk about requirements for an XML-based format to  
describe feature sets with.

Cheers,

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Mark Nottingham   Principal Technologist
Office of the CTO   BEA Systems

Received on Friday, 14 October 2005 04:21:55 UTC