Re: [dhcwg] dhc WG last call on <draft-ietf-dhc-ddns-resolution-09.txt>

On Jul 12, 2005, at 5:10 PM, David W. Hankins wrote:
> Since the first step the document outlines is the query, I think most
> under-educated implementors would follow it.

Anytime you say "just do it however you like" in a protocol  
specification, you can bank on the fact that someone is going to do  
it completely wrong.   The whole point of specifying a protocol is  
not so that implementors can pick and choose what they want to do,  
but so that implementors have a specific way of doing things that  
will definitely produce the right result.   Implementors are always  
free to not follow the specification, and as long as what they do  
works, that's fine, but if there's a need for a protocol  
specification, the protocol specification should specify a  
protocol.   So while it's always true the implementations MAY not  
follow the protocol, there's no need to encourage them.

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