On 27/2/20 22:05, Bernard Aboba wrote:
Fernando said:
"May I ask what is the point of bothering publishing specs if they are
going to be violated at will *within the same organization that
published the specs*."
[BA] The point of publishing specifications is to make them available
for evaluation and potential implementation. It's a contribution to the
"marketplace of ideas".
It would seem to me there's much more than that.
If that were the case, anything and everything would be published as an RFC.
Among other things, the specs we publish are supposed to be subject to a
decent level of review, and are also supposed to be coherent groups of
specifications.
If you have one spec that says one thing, and then you have another,
from the same Std Org, that says the opposite, without "obsoleting" the
former, then you end up with something that won't have a single bit of
coherence, virtually impossible to digest by anybody else other by than
a limited group of people that just happens to know how everyone
violates each others specs.
Thanks,
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Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
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