I seem to be getting two conflicting viewpoints:
#1 Vendors can only be trusted to be interoperable on their own,
and can not be forced to conform.
#2 Vendors absolutely can't be trusted to be interoperable,
without conformance testing.
Kyle, in all kindness, you're missing the most fundamental
viewpoint expressed here recently: The IETF isn't the place,
nor is it the organization, that could or should take on the
role of interoperability-cop.
Some have proposed the ISOC as a body to do this kind of thing.
Is it also public opinion that the ISOC should or shouldn't do
something like this?
I agree with all of everything being said. We mostly just need
to find the "right" body to do this kind of thing, and it's
still gotta be a "jury of peers" for it to have any value.
We need a "United Nations of Standards Citizenship".
Kyle Lussier
AutoNOC LLC