How active is the work on documenting RSYNC in a referencable, stable
way? If I don't see an I-D, I tend to have low expectations of
clearing up the reference in cases like these. I have sent mails to
Andrew Tridgell in the past and gotten no response. I also
corresponded with Dan Shearer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) who may be able to get
us answers if we have specific questions about the IPR.
Lisa
On Aug 13, 2008, at 8:50 AM, David Ward wrote:
Note that there are folks working to make the use of rsync a non-
issue by clearing up the IPR and get reference implementations and
docs together. Clearly rsync has been in use for millenia (in
internet time scales).
-DWard
On Aug 13, 2008, at 2:54 AM, Terry Manderson wrote:
On 12/08/2008, at 11:58 PM, Sandra Murphy wrote:
A social aspect that I'm cognisant of is that there appeared to
be reluctance by some parties to accept the rescerts draft
because it had a non-ietf reference implementation which
potentially could raise issues about interoperability between
releases. This draft should nullify those as it does provide an
IETF standard for retrieval - so with luck allowing the pivotal
draft in question to gain adoption faster.
Sorry for the late reply, I missed this remark.
The objections I've heard raised about rsync are (1) it has NO
specification beyond the code, which of course changes daily,
leading to interoperability issues, should anyone else attempt to
implement and (2) there's this license issue (formerly GPL v2, now
GPL v3) [IANAL, YMMV]. Lack of *IETF* spec, or reference
implementation of same, has not been a problem.
--Sandy
Thanks for the clarification Sandy, I'll step back from the "non-
ietf" point of view. (although in some ways it still drags on me,
but it isn't a defining factor) I think your two points are far
more salient in the broader view of the SIDR system architecture.
Cheers
Terry
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