> On Nov 19, 2015, at 05:14, Ted Lemon <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Wednesday, Nov 18, 2015 6:49 PM Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
>> It's not a simple matter of sending a few mailing list messages -- it's
>> a long-term effort that consists of writing portable, open source,
>> lightweight implementations (hnetd, shncpd), of deploying HNCP ourselves
>> (Paris network, Henning's network somewhere in Germany), of getting HNCP
>> implementations into Linux and Unix distributions (OpenWRT by Steven,
>> Debian/Ubuntu soon, I'm not telling), of speaking to people at community
>> meetings (Battlemesh, IETF, CCC, FOSDEM), in short, making HNCP familiar
>> and easily available.
> 
> Sure, that's fair enough.
> 
>> (And as we're trying to communicate our message in a clear and accurate
>> manner, how helpful it is to be able to say that a feature is "mandatory
>> to implement, optional to use, but you're not allowed to #ifdef it away".)
> 
> Just to clarify, mandatory to implement doesn't mean you have to write the 
> code.

s/write/run ?

- Mark

>   It means the functionality has to be present in the deployed implementation 
> so that two communicating partners can be configured to use it.   Mandatory 
> to use means that the functionality has to be used at all times.
> 
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