Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
An interesting analysis of RFC compliance for a big program:
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/10/18/deviating-from-specs/
A nice piece.
It does lead me to wonder about how we got away from writing compliance
tests for everything. And, a follow-up thought that, perhaps, a
compliance test might be a nice thing to add to RFCs (at least those
that proceed to standards) - with IETF or ISOC or maybe ICANN
maintaining a reference server to test against.
I'm also reminded how nice the perl ecosystem is - cpan, regression
tests built into modules, that sort of thing.
Miles Fidelman
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
Theory is when you know everything but nothing works.
Practice is when everything works but no one knows why.
In our lab, theory and practice are combined:
nothing works and no one knows why. ... unknown
