Re: letting IETF build on top of Open Source technology

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> On Oct 30, 2017, at 12:32 PM, Eliot Lear <lear@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 10/30/17 5:31 PM, Russ Housley wrote:
>>>> The SIDR WG wanted to reference rsync, but there was no stable reference that described the protocol, only the code.  A document was written to specify the rsync URL, and they is the only thing that is normatively referenced.  A reference to the protocol would be better, and I hope this BCP would allow that to happen in the future.
>>> When you say, “the protocol”, to what are you referring?
>> The rsync protocol.
>> What I meant was, do mean the document you referred to above or the code itself?

There was not a document that describes the rsync protocol.  The code has lots of comments, and it supports many versions.  The code is the real protocol definition.

Russ

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