[ih] History of IoT

[Dave Crocker]

On 2/13/2023 8:00 PM, Jack Haverty via Internet-history wrote:
> 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 

For Full standard, there has always been a requirement for significant 
field experience.

For Proposed standard the requirements have been highly variable.  
Sometimes requiring implementation, sometimes requiring meaningful 
interoperability demonstrations, sometimes merely requiring a document 
with limited spelling errors.

In terms of overall process, while things were sometimes onerous decades 
ago, they seem to be considerable more consistently onerous now.

d/

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