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Re: Proposed Resolution to PROT I-D Issues List

Wes Hardaker wrote:

Andy> Echoing one last word on XSD vs. plaintext -- if the XSD doesn't
Andy> match the text then we fix whichever one is broken.

Nice in theory, but not nice in the IETF.

1) the IETF standards track provides strict controls on updating documents.

2) updates never happen quickly.  The editor queue alone would be too
  long to change something.

One solution would be to host the XSD elsewhere and reference it, but
that's likely not acceptable from a standards process either.



Solution? What problem are we trying to solve here?
Have you found a problem with the XSD and text in disagreement?
If so, post it to the list. 

This whole thread feels like an SNMP CLR discussion.
You want to protect stupid programmers from themselves.
If developers ignore arbitrary portions of the specification
then their code probably won't work.

Andy





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