Re: RFC 9225 - Software Defects Considered Harmful

2022-04-01 Thread Mel Beckman
This is a complete aside, but still germane given todays date. For the youngsters among us, the title of this RFC is a sarcastic homage to one of the landmark computer papers of the 1960s: “Go To Statement Considered Harmful“, by legendary computer scientist Edsger Dijkstra. Published to the

Re: RFC 9225 - Software Defects Considered Harmful

2022-04-01 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Fri, Apr 1, 2022 at 3:12 PM Eric Kuhnke wrote: > If there's a bug in an ISP's implementation of RFC2549 carrier > 'equipment', is that considered a software bug, hardware, or subject of > ornithological research? > > Certainly that would depend on what part of the pipeline was involved, no?

Re: RFC 9225 - Software Defects Considered Harmful

2022-04-01 Thread Eric Kuhnke
If there's a bug in an ISP's implementation of RFC2549 carrier 'equipment', is that considered a software bug, hardware, or subject of ornithological research? On Fri, 1 Apr 2022 at 10:40, Job Snijders via NANOG wrote: > Hi all, > > It's super official now: no more software bugs in networking

RFC 9225 - Software Defects Considered Harmful

2022-04-01 Thread Job Snijders via NANOG
Hi all, It's super official now: no more software bugs in networking gear. Sorry it took so long to document what the best current practise is! Kind regards, Job / Chris / Remco - Forwarded message from rfc-edi...@rfc-editor.org - Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2022 10:17:37 -0700 (PDT) From: