Re: bettering open source involvement

[Alia Atlas <[e-mail]>]

On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 9:44 AM, Livingood, Jason <
[e-mail]> wrote:

> It is an interesting question on how the IETF will evolve. For example, at
> Bits & Bites, my team demonstrated a measurement system called XMAP that is
> based on the emerging IETF LMAP standards. We intend to open source that
> software, and use some hackathons to improve it in the next year or so. As
> it stands now, we’ll either use our own public code repository or partner
> with another organization (that may also have things like an ability to
> accept funds to continue support of the effort). What if, in some future
> state, a given working group had a code repository and the working group
> was chartered not just with developing the standards but maintaining
> implementations of the code?


Some WGs do already have github repositories that they use - and not just
for managing drafts.

I do think that there is a balance between what is ready for
standardization and what is still more experimental - but getting back to
having more experimental work that is backed by code could be helpful.

One concern would be keeping multiple implementations really happening and
also being clear on what are implementation choices versus interoperable
issues.

I think it is worth exploring more in this direction, while also
acknowledging that there is still and will continue to be a lot of
proprietary code that depends on IETF standards.

Regards,
Alia


> Jason
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> On 7/28/16, 4:30 PM, "ietf on behalf of Octavio Alvarez" <
> [e-mail] on behalf of [e-mail]> wrote:
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>     On 07/28/2016 01:56 AM, Dave Taht wrote:
>     > At both ietf and BBF this past week a frequent topic of conversation
>     > was how to get more open source involvement in standards orgs...
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>     Hi.
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>     Do you mean "how to get open source implementations of IETF standards"
>     or "open source people gathered at IETF conferences" or something else?
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>     Thanks.
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