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

Vijay Gurbani <vijay.gurbani@gmail.com> Fri, 21 August 2020 23:01 UTC

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From: Vijay Gurbani <vijay.gurbani@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 18:01:01 -0500
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Subject: Re: [irsg] An IETF repository for working code in our protocols?
To: Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca>
Cc: Jane Coffin <coffin@isoc.org>, IETF WG Chairs <wgchairs@ietf.org>
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Dear Michael, No, I am afraid that was not the proposal.  It is not about
educating coders.  My apologies, I am somewhat caught up in in other
matters right now, but I will reply later with more detail.

Thanks.


On Fri, Aug 21, 2020, 5:53 PM Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca>
wrote:

>
> Jane Coffin <coffin@isoc.org> wrote:
>     > I hope I do not sound too clueless, but is the objective in creating
> a
>     > repository to educate future coders?
>
> That was the proposal.
> Some kind of archive.
> Beyond the license issue and the appearance of endorsement,
> there are many other issues.
>
> It's not just getting a stack of disk space.
> The expensive issue is, in my opinion, figuring out how things would be
> nominated to go in.
>
> I don't think it has value.
>
> The codestand project was about matching WG protocol experts with
> implementors (imagined to be mostly students at various maturity levels)
> who
> are trying to do something reseachy with the protocol.
> More running code.
>
>     > I ask these questions sincerely and with apologies if this is super
> clear and I missed the context.
>
>
>
>
>     > 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.
>
>     > --
>     > Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@sandelman.ca>, Sandelman Software Works
>     > -= IPv6 IoT consulting =-
>
>
>
> --
> Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@sandelman.ca>, Sandelman Software Works
>  -= IPv6 IoT consulting =-
>
>
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