Re: [rfc-i] Table of conformance requirements.

Joseph Touch <touch@strayalpha.com> Fri, 19 June 2020 02:43 UTC

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> On Jun 18, 2020, at 2:20 PM, Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> wrote:
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>> On 2020-06-18, at 22:42, Joseph Touch <touch@strayalpha.com> wrote:
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>>> On Jun 18, 2020, at 11:01 AM, Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> There needs to be some way of deciding whether to report there are multiple interoperable implementations of every feature, whether or not that decision can be automated.
>> 
>> Needs? Why?
> 
> Such a need was created in RFC 2026 (Section 4.1.2).
> 
> RFC 6410 (which updates RFC 2026), Section 2.2, fixes this to:
> 
>   (3) There are no unused features in the specification that greatly
>       increase implementation complexity.

Features. The terms MUST, SHOULD, and MAY are not used in the reserved sense in RFC 6140.

And “greatly increase implementation complexity” is vague and impossible to objectively evaluate. There’s no utility in automating the incomplete input to a vague evaluation.

Joe
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