A seemingly OT question (but it has its reasons): there is an URL (or
something) that I can give to someone as a "pointer" to this thread?
On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 10:04 PM, MH Michael Hammer (5304)
<MHammer(_at_)ag(_dot_)com>
wrote:
I think another issue is the speed at which IETF working groups move and
the speed at which many open source projects move.
Mike
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From: ietf [mailto:ietf-bounces(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org] On Behalf Of Melinda
Shore
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2016 3:53 PM
To: Suzanne Woolf
Cc: IETF discussion list
Subject: Re: bettering open source involvement
On 7/28/16 10:26 AM, Suzanne Woolf wrote:
As an aside, DNS is one of the areas where there's actually a pretty
active give-and-take between standards and open source development--
some of the leading implementations of the protocol are open source
and have been for years, and there's been enormous benefit in an open
"code to current spec; test multiple implementations; debug; revise
code; revise spec" cycle for DNSSEC some years ago or some of the
DPRIVE work more recently.
Well, the PyCon thing took more the form of outreach to the
application/systems programming community, who were not aware of some
of the issues that the IETF has been working on for years. Many of these
technical communities tend to be less familiar with network plumbing
issues,
even those that have significant (if indirect) impact on them, or that
could
help them solve problems they're facing in their applications.
That the IETF does not do APIs is pretty much a matter of both faith and
practice, but there are groups out there implementing IETF protocols and
providing the APIs that allow application developers to use those
protocols
and services.
That is part of the open source landscape, as well.
Melinda