eac@edison.GE.COM (Beth Clark) (04/24/87)
Thanks to all who replied to my request for information about
TCP/IP conformance standards. Here are the responses:
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From: sskelton
NCR Corporation, Wichita, Kansas
I would suggest contacting Daniel C. Lynch, president of Advanced Computing
Environments of Cupertino, Ca.. He was also the organizer of the recent
TCP/IP conference in Monterey,Ca. of which the major topic was Interoperability.In a recent Datamation article (march 1,1987), an interview with Lynch tells
of his efforts to try to supply the conformance testing for vendors, users,
and the DOD for TCP/IP. Called the Coalition for Working Systems (CWS).
[Note: Two days ago I got a mailing from Lynch offering me his new
newsletter "Connexions", $360 for 12 issues/yr. If anyone is interested,
the address is Advanced Computing Environments, 21370 Val Avenue,
Cupertino, CA 95014 408-996-2042.
The Datamation was very helpful, and cited the reluctance of the DCA and
vendors to try to formulate a standard now since so many varying products
are already on the market. ]
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From: eugene miya (eugene@ames-aurora.ARPA)
NASA Ames Research Center
Yes there is one it was prepared by the Defense Communications Engineering
Center. I had a copy, but I would really have to look around. Work was
done by BBN. "Conformance" is far to strong a word. It sounds like you
have a bureacracy to contend with. This is not like Ada.
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From: Tony Michel (michel@cct.bbn.com)
BBN Communications
BBN Communications is in the process of setting up a service to assist
with the testing and evaluation of TCP/IP. We are now offering this
service to product vendors, who wnat to test prior to going on DDN.
I expect we could assist you.
What we have is not as precise and closed form as the ISO conformance
tests. It turns out to be very hard to pin down a subject TCP implementation
for testing, since many implementations were not designed with the hooks
for testing. Nonetheless, there's a lot you can do. What we do is
run the subject under a variety of real applications, and IP and TCP
level test programs. We also test the subject against a variety of the real
DEC, UNIX, and IBM systems which are "out there," which, though not precise
is a very good test.
Ed Black of BBNCC is a good administrative starting point, and I am a
suitable technical POC, if you'd like more info.
[ I have contacted Ed for this. ]
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