Re: Why have we gotten away from running code?

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch at muada.com>]

On 10-aug-2005, at 11:14, Love Hörnquist Åstrand wrote:

> I don't agree, several IETF protocols that I've implemented while  
> still
> drafts have had major design changes done them because of an  
> implementation
> exposed serious flaws in them (secsh-gss, pk-init).

Hm, I'm not familiar with those. Still, for most of the protocols I'm  
familiar with I can't see how implementing them earlier would have  
changed the design. (Note that I haven't implemented any IETF  
protocols myself, but I did once do an implementation of a badly  
designed protocol.)

> There are also specifications that would have been good to have
> implementations before leaving the WG, because they are not
> implemented-able as is (spkm).

Is that because the designers did a bad job or because there was no  
way to anticipate the implementation difficulties?
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