On 10-aug-2005, at 11:14, Love Hörnquist Åstrand wrote:
I don't agree, several IETF protocols that I've implemented while
still
drafts have had major design changes done them because of an
implementation
exposed serious flaws in them (secsh-gss, pk-init).
Hm, I'm not familiar with those. Still, for most of the protocols I'm
familiar with I can't see how implementing them earlier would have
changed the design. (Note that I haven't implemented any IETF
protocols myself, but I did once do an implementation of a badly
designed protocol.)
There are also specifications that would have been good to have
implementations before leaving the WG, because they are not
implemented-able as is (spkm).
Is that because the designers did a bad job or because there was no
way to anticipate the implementation difficulties?
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