[ih] Yet another subject change: Testing (Was Re: Gateway Issue: Certification (was Re: booting linux on a 4004))

[David Arnold]

> On 4 Oct 2024, at 04:32, Karl Auerbach via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

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> (One of my suggestions was the imposition of legal, civil tort, liability for network design, implementation, and operational errors - using a negligence standard so that simple mistakes would not suffer liability.  Wow, the groans from the audience were quite loud.)

As a generalization, software and network engineers test until it works.  Proper engineers test until it breaks. The results are obvious.




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