On Friday, April 19, 2002, at 04:00 , Liao Wei wrote:
> Each IEEE standards give out PICS proforma for Protocol Implementation
> Conformance Statement. The supplier of an implementation that is claimed
> to conform to the standard should complete the PICS document and provide
> the information necessary to identify the supplier and implementaion.
>
> Is there any this kind of document for RFCs.
No. And my experience has been that PICS documents (from anyplace, not
just IEEE) have not been a good indicator of whether the implementation
really conformed/complied with the spec I was referencing.
> If an internet device supplier claim their implementaion conform to
> RFCXXXX.
> What should subscriber do to verify the conformance.
That is left entirely up to the customer. IETF does not specify
any such
conformance tests to run. When I've been a customer, I have invented my
own tests
for things I cared about and tested the equipment myself.
Ran
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