- From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 10:33:12 +0200
- To: Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se>, IETF Applications Area Discussion List <discuss@apps.ietf.org>
At 20:20 18.06.2000 +0200, Jacob Palme wrote:
>I thought interoperability meant that one implementation
>could receive what another implementation produced. You say
>that interoperability means that two implementations will
>handle the same manually generated input in the same way.
>Is that really right? Or is that a special variant of
>interoperability, to be applied to "receive-only" specs,
>while "send-and-receive" specs will still be tested by
>testing that one implementation can receive what another
>implementation sends?
When in doubt, read the specification.
RFC 2026, section 4.1.2:
"For the purposes of this section, "interoperable" means to be functionally
equivalent or interchangeable components of the system or process in which
they are used."
So two MTAs reacting identically to the same telnet session on port 25 are
interoperable, even though they never connect to each other.
Harald
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Harald Tveit Alvestrand, EDB Maxware, Norway
Harald.Alvestrand@edb.maxware.no
Received on Monday, 19 June 2000 04:36:57 UTC