On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 8:58 AM, Alia Atlas <[email protected]> wrote: > In the Routing Area, it depends upon the WG as to whether 2 interoperable > implementations are required. This is always the case in, for example , > IDR. For a new routing protocol, I think it would be appropriate to be > comfortable that others can implement it and it works well.
The yak we are shaving here, is whether two inter-operable implementations leveraging the same mit-licensed source code base (as in the base babeld daemon and the quagga implementation) are acceptable to this wg. > > Regards, > Alia > > On Mar 25, 2015 7:43 AM, "Brian E Carpenter" <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> > 1) I don't know where the "2 separate implementation" concept is >> > embedded formally in the ietf structures for approval. >> >> It isn't, for Proposed Standard status, although historically the >> Routing Area has been tougher than the rest of the IETF because of >> reasonable concern that a faulty routing protocol can produce more >> horrible failure modes than pretty much anything else. >> >> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4794 may clarify a bit. >> >> For advancement to Internet Standard there is a requirement >> for 2 implementations but that is not germane to the current >> discussion. (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6410) >> >> Sigh. It's embarassing how baroque the IETF process documents >> have become, but it would be a lot of uninspiring work to >> clean them up. That's why I've been maintaining this page for >> a few years now: http://www.ietf.org/about/process-docs.html >> (And yes, I'm aware it's overdue for an update.) >> >> Brian >> >> _______________________________________________ >> homenet mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet -- Dave Täht Let's make wifi fast, less jittery and reliable again! https://plus.google.com/u/0/107942175615993706558/posts/TVX3o84jjmb _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
