At 12:55 PM -0800 11/23/10, Doug Barton wrote: >In the theoretical perfect world the reason for producing a spec is so that vendors can _create_ interoperable versions of the service. That motivation doesn't apply here, so one wonders what the time pressure is. That is "a" reason, not "the" reason. Another is so that vendors can assure interoperability of their systems after they are deployed. Saying "you have to figure out how to interoperate with all other implementations" does not lead to that interoperability. A stable RFC can help greatly, as has been shown repeatedly in the IETF. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf