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Re: [hackathon] Open Source Software and network protocol standards

Tom Pusateri <pusateri@bangj.com> Sun, 20 March 2022 20:56 UTC

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Subject: Re: [hackathon] Open Source Software and network protocol standards
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> On Mar 19, 2022, at 5:00 PM, Stuart Cheshire <cheshire=40apple.com@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:
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> Good point Chris. Let’s remove the “recent” caveat. Examples others have given, like TCP/IP and HTTP, are very relevant data points too.
> 
> Stuart Cheshire

OSPF is a good example. We did a lot of interop testing and Rob Colton (UMD) did an open source implementation that landed in gated (Cornell) which I was a part of. John Moy (Protocol author/inventor, Proteon), Fred Baker (at ACC at the time), Dino Farinacci (3com at the time), Der-Hwa Gan (also 3com), and someone from Wellfleet who I don’t recall would do bake-offs where we would gather in a hotel conference room and connect all the routers and look for interop problems. Everyone would test against the open source version back at their labs as well as some of the closed source versions if you had the right equipment. I remember a bake-off in Boston where we discovered a bug in one of the closed source vendor implementations and everyone from all the companies just gathered around the laptop and looked at the source code trying to find the bug. Those were the good old days! (1989) The bug was discovered and fixed right then.

Tom

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