SM wrote:
People are not doing many implementation reports. As you say above,
there are only about 75 of them. How many protocols are documented in
RFCs? That is a very low percentage in my view.
Yes, it's a very low percentage. I don't have the figure for the number
of protocols documented. Given the low barrier for such reports, I
would have expected to see more reports. After all, if the RFC has been
published, the protocol has been widely deployed, it should simply have
been a matter of filing the short report.
Of course, when implementation reports are written, one has to
watchful for the summarized analytical results that either attempt to
add weight to an desired goal or mask the undesired goal and natural
result.
In one such report, I was able to show the data collection indicated
an undesired result was indeed the natural and dominant implementation
mode. The 2nd revision tweaked the semantics enough to hide the
higher weight of the data collected for the undesirable dominant mode.
When that change was also seen and noted, it was added back in the
3rd revision as a "oops" exclusion.
This is not an exercise we should have to go through. Engineers must
have complete faith in implementation reports.
--
Hector Santos, CTO
http://www.santronics.com
http://santronics.blogspot.com
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