Re: [dc] draft-khasnabish-vmmi-problems-00.txt

Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> Wed, 08 February 2012 18:02 UTC

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On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 12:24:16PM -0500, Bhumip Khasnabish wrote:
> Thanks Juergen.
> 
> Can you give a few examples of which "implementors"
> you are referring to.
> 

The value of any standard is measured in implementations and
eventually deployments. In the IETF, this is even wired into the rules
since specifications only advance if there are interoperable
implementations. Hence, if someone pushes for work done in the IETF,
he/she needs to understand who is going to implement things and
involve those implementors in the process to ensure the specification
is real-world implementable.

In the discussion here, I sometimes sense a lack of clueful input from
people who are familiar with code running in hypervisors or whatever
is proposed to be modified. In the case of hypervisors, there should
be people who know xen, vmware, ... from the inside. And if those
people find agreement that there is a common problem the IETF can help
with (by providing a platform to develop a common solution), then I
get a much better feeling.

/js

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