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

[John Day]

As I just replied to Vint, so far as I know ISO did no certification testing.

There was a lot of complaining by traditional standards people that standards were only suppose to contain requirements (think screw threads) and not how to do it.  They didn’t like how much of the ‘how’ to build it was in the specifications, like when certain packets were sent or what do with them when they were received. They were more or less beat into submission. The only thing that was done was a Formal Description Techniques to try to avoid the ambiguity of prose. Two methods were developed and were used to find bugs during development of some of the protocols.

But I don’t know of any standards organization that does certification.  There was a demand for it, and a group did try to specify some conformance tests for some protocols, but it was never very thorough, and a far cry from certification, nor used by anyone but possibly those DoD guys in AZ.

John

> On Oct 3, 2024, at 16:02, Dave Crocker <dhc at dcrocker.net> wrote:
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> On 10/3/2024 12:42 PM, John Day wrote:
>> Just out of curiosity, what other standards organizations do compliance testing?
> 
> Hmmm.  I guess my phrasing did attribute the requirement to the SDOs.  Didn't phrase that carefully enough.  
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> The ecosystems using those SDOs' specs typically embodied the requirement. I don't hink the SDOs, themselves, did.  Certainly the OSI world, as typical for ITU and ISO standards.
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