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Re: [EAI] Test - driven schedule (Re: Rechartering)

Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com> Fri, 24 July 2009 09:12 UTC

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Cc: Shawn Steele <Shawn.Steele@microsoft.com>, "ima@ietf.org" <ima@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: [EAI] Test - driven schedule (Re: Rechartering)
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Harald Alvestrand wrote:

> Shawn Steele wrote:  
>
>>> But I personally think that the odds of getting a site that
>>> can't manage "john+ietf@bogus.domain.name" to be able to handle
>>> <иван@bogus.domain.name <john@bogus.domain.name>>
>>> within my lifetime are pretty small.
>>
>> I'd agree, but john@bogus.domain.name should still work :)0
>>
>> So, I pretty much agree with your points, but you aren't giving me 
>> much hope of EAI being adaquate to those criteria in the next 
>> decade.  I still think some sort of schedule would be interesting to 
>> help us figure out how to proceed in addressing your concerns.  
>
> Would it be interetsing to (for at least 5 minutes) explore the idea 
> of a test-driven schedule, rather than a calendar-driven one?
>
> That is, specify a number of criteria that should be met before 
> standards-track, and see if we can work backwards:
>
> tests that need to be done -> people volunteering for the work -> 
> reasonable schedule?

I think this is a great idea. So yes, let's talk about it in Stockholm.

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