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

Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de> Thu, 20 August 2020 16:18 UTC

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From: Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de>
To: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
Cc: Eliot Lear <lear=40cisco.com@dmarc.ietf.org>, "wgchairs@ietf.org" <wgchairs@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: [irsg] An IETF repository for working code in our protocols?
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On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 04:05:38PM +0000, Salz, Rich wrote:
> 
> >    I guess there is little that can be done against someone calling their code
>     reference implementation. Except of course having actually WG endorsed
>     reference code and calling that "IETF FOOBAR-WG <protocol> reference code".
> 
> For a long time there was only Dave Mills's NTP code, and the current maintainer insists that this is still the reference implementation.  The IETF doesn't have reference implementations, nor should it.
> 
> >    Eliot mentioned crypto code, but i don't think we have official "endorsement/work-product status"
>     for any such code... or do we ?
> 
> We have several RFC's that contain implementations. 

Right. I was just compiling the NomCom hash algo RFC code last month. Indeed ;-)

Yeah.... that kinda sucks as a way to represent source code. Maybe if there is sufficient interest this is something that could be overhauled.

Cheers
    Toerless

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