Re: bettering open source involvement

[Melinda Shore <[e-mail]>]

On 7/28/16 10:26 AM, Suzanne Woolf wrote:
> As an aside, DNS is one of the areas where there's actually a pretty
> active give-and-take between standards and open source development--
> some of the leading implementations of the protocol are open source
> and have been for years, and there's been enormous benefit in an open
> "code to current spec; test multiple implementations; debug; revise
> code; revise spec" cycle for DNSSEC some years ago or some of the
> DPRIVE work more recently.

Well, the PyCon thing took more the form of outreach to the
application/systems programming community, who were not aware
of some of the issues that the IETF has been working on for
years.  Many of these technical communities tend to be less
familiar with network plumbing issues, even those that have
significant (if indirect) impact on them, or that could help
them solve problems they're facing in their applications.
That the IETF does not do APIs is pretty much a matter of
both faith and practice, but there are groups out there
implementing IETF protocols and providing the APIs that allow
application  developers to use those protocols and services.
That is part of the open source landscape, as well.

Melinda