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Re: Running Code

Marc Petit-Huguenin <petithug@acm.org> Wed, 04 March 2009 16:08 UTC

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Henry Sinnreich wrote:
>  Brian,
> 
> Having running code only as a guideline has not served the IETF well
> lately, since it is largely ignored.
> 
> I am still cringing during the IETF SIMPLE meetings when we use Jabber
> IM that has the code free and available.
> 
> Would the SIMPLE WG have had the mandatory requirement of running code,
> SIMPLE would be much further ahead.
> 

Which remind me of this quote from A. Lyman Chapin (in [1]):

"It didn't take long to recognize the basic irony of OSI standards
development: there we were, solemnly anointing international
standards for networking, and every time we needed to send
electronic mail or exchange files, we were using the TCP/IP-based
Internet!"



[1] Malkin, G., "Who's Who in the Internet: Biographies of
    IAB, IESG and IRSG Members", RFC 1336, May 1992.

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