[ih] Who owns old RFCs ?

[Bernie Cosell]

On April 24, 2020 15:55:04 Dan Lynch via Internet-history 
<internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> Back in the 80s I created Interop so vendors could demonstrate compliance 
> with the IETF RFC standards. The idea of a testing institute to ensure 
> compliance was floated and found too burdensome by everyone so public 
> demonstrations became the efficient way. Our motto became “I know it works. 
> I saw it at Interop!”  Of course there was months of voluntary testing at 
> my lab in Sunnyvale that preceded the public demonstrations at Interop. 
> Self interest motivated every one.

doesn't that run into the n² problem?  if you had an effective compliance
test it would be an o(n) problem, but for interoperability testing it is
an o{n²) matter.  if you have, say, 12 vendors you'd have to 12 compliance 
tests
but 66 interop tests.


/Bernie\



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