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Re: An IETF repository for working code in our protocols?

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Fri, 21 August 2020 16:50 UTC

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Subject: Re: An IETF repository for working code in our protocols?
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Pete Resnick <resnick@episteme.net> wrote:
    >>> I also don't think that it's necessary, once a protocol is successful;
    >>> after broad deployment, people don't need to go searching for
    >>> implementations. It *is* useful when a project is starting, to help early
    >>> implementers find each other, though. 
    >>
    >> Yes, agreed!  The idea would be light the fire of widespread implementation
    >> by the kindling (code) that tracked the I-D as it became an RFC.  

    > It might be useful (for you all and for the IAB program) to look at the
    > codestand (originally codematch) project, both its successes and its
    > failures. The email lists are still in the archives. I followed it at the
    > beginning, but don't know much about it other than it was in part trying to
    > help match up implementors with standards.

It was more a mentee/mentor matching around the code/standard situation.
I get the impression that the effort just ran out of oomph.

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Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@sandelman.ca>, Sandelman Software Works
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