At 7:56 AM -0800 12/16/07, Dave Crocker wrote:
Yaakov Stein wrote:
Why don't we dedicate a separate 2 hour plenary just to this
experiment with the moderator announcing workarounds and collected
statistics ?
That's not a plenary.
That's an interoperability event.
Not at all: it is an operations experiment. The (probably valid)
assumption is that if people can get their systems set up correctly,
there will be good interoperability once bits are flowing end to end.
The test is getting their systems set up.
The IETF doesn't do those...
...but should. In the VPN Consortium's logo testing, we see much more
difficulty with the operations side of IPsec than in the IPsec
protocol itself. I would not be surprised to hear similar results for
other protocol suites, such as IPv6.
Having the IETF see first-hand the operational aspects of its
protocols would probably have a positive effects on the protocols it
produces.
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium
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