Hi John,
If you wish to discuss how the tests were carried out,
you can talk to the
7 major carriers that provided lab sites and the 13
router and switch vendors that participated
in the 2005 demo.
JD: Just as I
suspected
In what sense does IETF use the term interoperability
test?
JD: You know, the
stuff required to advance to proposed
standard
Is there an RFC on this?
JD: I'm
sure.
I was unaware that IETF ran
interoperability tests.
JD: I didn't say it did, and I don't know if
it does.
Cheers,
Lyndon
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Regarding Topic
2:
Again I ask,
wouldn’t it be better to look at this document which has been implemented
by many vendors, and successfully interoperability tested many times over
many years to see what can be leveraged instead of starting from
scratch?
JD: I noticed that
Jonathan has put in this plug several times. I am wondering whether
these events are truly interoperability tests, in the sense that the IETF
uses the term, or rather rigged demos? I seem to remember that the
OIF characterized itself as a marketing organization.