[ih] Who owns old RFCs ?

[Steve Crocker]

If the interactions are serial, N = 50 is a very big number for
interoperability testing.  50*49/2 interactions.  But, of course, in the
Interop environment, many interactions could take place in parallel.
Further, it's not really necessary for everyone to interact with everyone
else.  After the first several interactions, most of the issues will have
surfaced.  A few of the 50 will have become primary players.  I imagine it
all converges fairly rapidly.

Steve


On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 6:20 PM Dan Lynch via Internet-history <
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> N was not very big. Started at 50 and was at 200 a few years later. Still
> only took a day or so.
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> > On April 24, 2020 15:55:04 Dan Lynch via Internet-history <
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> >> 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.
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