[ih] Gateway Issue: Certification (was Re: booting linux on a 4004)

[John Day]

Just out of curiosity, what other standards organizations do compliance testing?

John

> On Oct 3, 2024, at 13:54, Dave Crocker via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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> On 10/3/2024 10:43 AM, Jack Haverty via Internet-history wrote:
>> It's curious to me that such mechanisms have not been created for the Internet Industry.
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> Informal interoperability testing, versus formal compliance testing, was and remains a key distinction between the Internet's culture and the cultures of various other standards organization. Compliance testing is typically expensive and incomplete.  (As a tool for initial code debugging, tests like that can be efficient; as a guarantee of field interoperability, not so much.)
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> There was a wonderful panel that Vint was on, circa 1990, along with a number of other folk, including a vigorous OSI proponent from Boeing.
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> Vint made his comments about experiences with the Internet's technology and specifically noted the reliance on interoperability testing rather than (bench) compliance testing.
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> Other panelists made various comments and then the Boeing person made theirs, vigorously asserting that it is not possible to get widespread interoperability without formal compliance testing.
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> It was fun to watch Vint slowly lean slightly forward and then slowly turn his head toward the Boeing person.
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