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Re: I-D Action: draft-thomson-postel-was-wrong-01.txt

2017-06-12 22:39:22
Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 06:29:30AM -0700, internet-drafts(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org:
        Title           : The Harmful Consequences of Postel's Maxim
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-thomson-postel-was-wrong-01

Perhaps instead of requiring two implementations for a protocol draft to
proceed to rfc, it should first or also have a test suite that

        ... fails noisily in response to bad or undefined inputs.

Having a community-developed test suite for any protocol would be a great
asset.