Re: Idea for a process experiment to reward running code...

Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Mon, 03 December 2012 16:23 UTC

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Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2012 16:22:57 +0000
From: Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>
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Subject: Re: Idea for a process experiment to reward running code...
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On 12/03/2012 04:21 PM, Sam Hartman wrote:
>>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> writes:
> 
>     Stephen> On 12/03/2012 02:50 PM, Barry Leiba wrote:
>     >> I'd really prefer if we'd talk about open source being desirable,
>     >> but not having it be necessary.
> 
>     Stephen> Yep. I got another comment to that effect as well.  I'll
>     Stephen> try address that (but that's not done yet).
> 
> For myself, I think the requirement for open-source is very good for
> this experiment, or something like it.
> 
> People can examine the open-source implementation and consider the
> question of whether the implementation explores enough of the edge cases
> that a process short-cut is appropriate.  I think that's important in
> this, so I'd be a lot more comfortable with this with an open-source
> requirement.

Me too. But I guess others are concerned about that. Anyway, if/when
this gets an IETF LC, we can see if the wording's ok for folks.

Cheers,
S.

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