Re: Accurate history [Re: "professional" in an IETF context]

[Greg Shepherd <[e-mail]>]

>
> Existence of running code for some specification means
> not that the specification is good but that we can
> operate and evaluate the specification to judge whether
> it is good or not.
>
>                                                 Masataka Ohta
>

This, surprisingly, can't be said enough. I've repeatedly heard the
argument that someone's running code is verification that the idea is
sound, and therefore the solution should be adopted. And I can rarely tell
if they are simply lacking any sense of architecture or if they are just
trolling the group to push their work. Either way, it's exhausting.

- Shep