- From: Balachander Krishnamurthy <bala@research.att.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 13:18:44 -0400
- To: Keith Hoffman <hoffmankeith@hotmail.com>
- Cc: kugler@us.ibm.com, msabin@cromwellmedia.co.uk, http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
>The simplest answer as to why this isn't good is that it's outside the >charter of the IETF. This organization is here to create standards. >Not to validate/judge whether someone is compliant with them. compliancy to a protocol is one of the key expectation of a specification. the folks who worked on the spec have a clear interest in seeing whether all the effort they went to in terms of M/S/M were met. it is not an issue of "judging" and saying "oh sorry, ee.software is broken". claiming that ietf should not be interested in compliancy appears a bit odd to me. we all stand to gain from making sure that implementations are compliant to a protocol spec. ietf should be interested. at least they were interested last year when they invited me to give a talk at a plenary sesion last year during their d.c. meeting - the talk was on http/1.1 protocol compliancy. what is wrong with ietf-sponsored group coming up with a test suite for an open protocol specification? anyone who wants have their software tested against it can do so. ietf is unlikely to be partial in the construction of a compliancy test suite. cheers, bala balachander krishnamurthy http://www.research.att.com/~bala/papers
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