If we are talking adequacy of implementations I have no comment but if
we are talking here pursuits of characterizing facts through
implementations IETF has a role since tests alone can shed some light
on any aspect of network topology which directly or indirectly may be
under the specified domain of IETF body.
Thx
getty
Dave Crocker wrote:
At 01:15 PM 1/22/2002 -0800, Marshall T. Rose wrote:
the ietf does standardization, it does not do interoperability testing,
conformance certification, or protocol policing. we rely on other
organizations and the market for those tasks.
marshall,
Although I thought your note was wonderfully thorough, concise and
insightful, it appears that your core message was missed by some.
What I took to be your core message was that if an organization is going to
claim responsibility for judging the adequacy of implementations, then that
organization needs to create a thorough and fair process for creating and
handling those judgements. Anything informal or incomplete would be
extremely irresponsible.
The fact that such irresponsibility would likely have legal impact should
not distract anyone from noting that, first and foremost, anything less
than a full-blown and fair process would be irresponsible.
As others have noted, the IETF is rather busy doing a different job. So
the most the IETF should do is wish someone well if they try to pursue this
assessment-and-enforcement job.
Alas, it is not possible for the IETF to do everything, as we keep
discovering.
d/
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