Re: 2822upd-04 definition of terms needed

Dave Crocker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.rfc822
Organization Brandenburg InternetWorking
Message-ID <[email protected]>


[email protected] wrote:
>     I run into incompliant behavior of this and many
> other sorts all the time. In most cases it isn't possible to communicate with
> the responsible parties so there's no way to know why they did it. 
...
> It is nothing short of stunning how many people think they know how to
> implement a protocol (the specific protocol is irrelevant) just from a cursory
> examination of example protocol exchanges from some random book they flipped
> through one day at a local bookstore. And no amount of added prose, or more
> precise ABNF, or anything else we do is going to change this. In fact by making
> our specifications longer we if anything make the problem slightly worse, not
> better.

+1

d/

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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
   bbiw.net
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