[MMUSIC] Coding from examples [was Re: I-D Action:draft-ietf-mmusic-ice-tcp-09.txt]

[Marc Petit-Huguenin <[e-mail]>]

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On 09/03/2010 05:33 AM, Simon Perreault wrote:
> On 2010-09-02 19:32, Dan Wing wrote:
>> That would give the implication it is ICE's fault that SDP is big,
> 
> For me, this is a minor concern.
> 
>> or give the implication that a host with multiple interfaces is 
>> going to necessarily have STUN and TURN servers on all of those
>> interfaces.
> 
> Nah, just preface the example with some text explaining that this is a
> full-blown example, real-life will be simpler, yadda yadda yadda...
> 
>> In any event, if we're going to do a big example, how about
>> a real example in draft-ietf-sipping-nat-scenarios, if it 
>> doesn't have it already?
> 
> I don't care where it is, but we need one. When you're implementing
> something, you end up looking longer at examples than at the actual
> spec. It really is extremely useful.

And, in my opinion, terribly wrong.  I personally would ban all examples from
RFC, because at best they are exposing only a subset of what the RFC describe
and at worst there is bugs in it, bugs[1] that you will then find in
implementations.


[1] See errata #562, 534, 507, 588, 589, 503, 749, 481, 469, 615, 619, 446, 447,
872, 435, 432, 645, 649, 650, 651, 391, 1839, 362, 359, 1080, 349, 299, 246,
1004, 704, 873, 1525, 631, 1681, 1352, 1716, 852, 781, 828, 727, 948, 1476,
1785, 1376, 2270, 2271, 1068, 1803, 1685, 1808, 1993, 1916, 2039, 1083, 1899,
1813, 452, 440, 442, 443, 444, 411, 1432, 2258, 1469, 2261, 1500, 1273, 1009,
1605, 2030...

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