Hi Group, I was thinking about methods to quantify the conformity of a protocol's implementation to its RFC. What could be the possible metrics that I could consider while quantifying the conformity of any protocol's implementation to its RFC? Let me make myself more clear with an example: Lets say I am validating a particular TCP implementation on a server. I need to see how much of the TCP implementation is in accord with RFC 793. After the analysis of implementaion, once I know what parts of the RFC is implemented and what part of it is not, I need to come up with a number and say something like, 93% of TCP implementation on this server is in agreement with RFC 793 and 7% of it is not! So to quantify like this, I should have some metrics to weigh a given RFC. Does anyone have any idea as to how any given RFC could be divided into various components and then assigned a weightage which could then be used as a reference to check other implemenations?? Some of the components that I was thinking about are: 1. Packet structure 2. Query format 3. State transitions If you have any ideas, I will be very much willing to know about it. --------- Thanks, Sreevathsa _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf