hrp@boring.cray.com (Hal Peterson) (03/30/89)
I have a copy of a memo from the Assistant Secretary of Defense for
C3I, dated August 26, 1988, that says in part
Implementations of [IP, TCP, FTP, Telnet, and SMTP] must be tested
by a National Bureau of Standards (NBS) accredited laboratory
prior to first operational use on any DoD network. The
conformance testing requirement is mandatory for all contracts
executed after 1 June 1989.
I am surprised that this hasn't been discussed on this list, in view
of the technical difficulties of testing and philosophical questions
about the usefulness of conformance testing and certification, not to
mention the difficulty of getting an implementation to conform. How's
it going?
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