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

[Brian E Carpenter]

On 04-Oct-24 11:22, Barbara Denny via Internet-history wrote:
>   I just remembered this activity but I don't know anything about it.
> https://www.iol.unh.edu/testing/ipv6

It's serious. Closely connected to ongoing work such as draft-winters-v6ops-rfc7084bis, "Basic Requirements for IPv6 Customer Edge Routers" and draft-clw-6man-rfc8504-bis "IPv6 Node Requirements", so directly impacting both standards development and running code.

    Brian

> barbara
>      On Thursday, October 3, 2024 at 02:59:52 PM PDT, Karl Auerbach via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
>   
>   On 10/3/24 10:43 AM, Jack Haverty via Internet-history wrote:
> 
>> Around the time that TCP/IP became a DoD Standard in the 1980s,
>> NIST/NBS also created a Certification methodology.   DoD altered its
>> procurement regulations to require such Certifications for everything
>> it purchased.  I've never learned who specifically made either of
>> those things happen.  But someone did.
> 
> My memory is vague on this, but I believe that some DoD formal documents
> were done by Dave Kaufman (SDC) and Carl Sunshine.  But I could be
> completely wrong about this.
> 
>       --karl-
>