Just to make sure this doesn't get by without comment:
On 1/4/03 at 2:06 AM -0500, Leo Bicknell wrote:
Change the RFC, then complain about the program.
Sorry, we don't do that in the IETF. The IETF standards process
doesn't make up rules and then make everybody fix their code. In the
IETF, standards simply document the current state of affairs of
interoperable running code. When we work on Proposed Standards where
there is no running code, we sometimes propose ways of doing things
and ask people to make their implementations a certain way, but we
don't tell people who are following a current standard that they are
hereafter wrong without pretty impressive reasons. We do "de facto"
standards, not "de jure" ones.
pr
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