Re: [weirds] New Version Notification for draft-sheng-weirds-icann-rws-dnrd-01.txt

"John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> Wed, 21 March 2012 18:26 UTC

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>> If that's the only way you know to validate results, OK, but my plan is to write test harnesses to debug the results, like I do for all my other client server stuff, regardless of what the encoding is.
>
> Good for you that follow good software development practices. Unfortunately that's not the case for everybody, so good luck parsing the answer from someone who has not done the same.

So just to make it clear, you think that the people writing the servers 
will be too incompetent to debug their code?

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