At 04:58 PM 1/22/2002 -0800, Ed Gerck wrote:
Perhaps we all agree that standardization without some sort of conformance
verification is ineffective.
The only problem with that assessment is 25 years of Internet experience,
all of which was based of no conformance verification, but quite a bit of
effectiveness.
d/
ps. yes, yes. individual implementors worry quite a lot about conformance
verification. however, the topic under discussion has to do with formal,
community-based efforts, rather than individual actions.
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