Re: A modest proposal

[Janet P Gunn <jgunn6@xxxxxxx>]

Do none of you know what the phrase "a modest proposal" refers
to?

Try googling it.

Janet


ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx wrote on 01/21/2013 11:57:22
PM:

> From: William Jordan <wjordan129@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: ietf@xxxxxxxx
> Date: 01/22/2013 12:01 AM
> Subject: A modest proposal
> Sent by: ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx
> 
> 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