IETF interoperability testing

Dave Crocker <dcrocker@bbiw.net> Mon, 17 December 2007 17:51 UTC

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Fred Baker wrote:
> what leads you to believe that the IETF doesn't do interoperability 
> events? It has done quite a few, notably in DHCPv6 immediately following 
> the recent IETF and going back in various working groups as far as I can 
> remember.

working groups have conducted interop events?  no, I hadn't heard of that.

but I hope my misunderstanding doesn't distract us from seeking to make this 
one succeed or, at least, making it a meaningful "experiment" rather than one 
pretty much guaranteed to fail...

d/

ps.  it has even occurred to me that the hidden agenda here is to demonstrate 
to the IETF just how poor Internet-wide support of v6 is...

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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
   bbiw.net

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