I've recent had to write a program to interface with a SIP lync server and in doing so have had to code to several rfcs. After reading and dealing with implementation of the various rfcs I have read I have come up with what I consider "A modest proposal" to fix some of the problems I've seen with implementing a rfc. I think anyone who writes a rfc should have to provide a working ANSI/C or GNU/C implementation of the rfc in question. Specifically, I have worked with the SIP rfc (rfc 3261) and have come to the conclusion that whoever wrote the rfc has never coded a day in their life. Whoever thought it was a good idea to allow multiple ways of doing the same exact thing would hopefully be deterred by actually writing code to do it. I think a suitable punishment for those people would be to write each way of writing a from header on a blackboard 100 times... this would actually be less of the pain they've cause by making each writer of a SIP stack handle each possible way of doing things.
Anyways, that is my modest proposal, please respond or I will be forced to reply every day to this mailing list on each and every way the SIP spec sucks one email at a time. FYI I'm not sure if GNU/C is the correct acronym, maybe its POSIX/C.
Regards,
Bill