On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Dave Crocker <dhc(_at_)dcrocker(_dot_)net>
wrote:
On 11/29/2013 12:22 AM, Roberto Peon wrote:
The only reason to specify a must-implement is to increase interop; if
mandating a codec does not increase the amount of interop, why do it?
If the base specification does not provide enough information for basic
interoperability, what is the benefit in standardizing it?
An alternative that I believe has already been mentioned is to standardize
/both/, but separately.
Under two different names, which then lets the market decide on whether
either will succeed.
Letting the market decide amongst competing choices used to be something
the IETF did more commonly. One of the more colorful examples was SNMP vs.
CMOT.
And twenty years later the market still hasn't decided between S/MIME and
PGP.
Or maybe it has decided none of the above.
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