[ih] History of IoT

[Jack Haverty]

That was actually a relaxation of Jon's earlier stance - "Rough 
Consensus and Running Code".  You needed not just a design, but also an 
implementation.   Preferably two distinct ones that could be seen to 
interoperate.  It seems the criteria for becoming a standard changed 
over history.  Running Code is no longer necessary?  /J

On 2/13/23 19:54, Dave Crocker via Internet-history wrote:
> On 2/13/2023 7:01 PM, Brian E Carpenter via Internet-history wrote:
>> I don't see why not. Jon Postel always insisted that RFCs in that
>> must be completely implementable.
>
> Indeed. I once submitted a draft April 1 RFC for doing IP over Email.  
> Jon rejected it because I had not resolved the question of the 
> upper=level IP address usage with the lower-level IP address usage.
>
> sigh.
>
> d/
>