Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!ucbvax!tcp-ip From: tcp-ip@ucbvax.ARPA Newsgroups: fa.tcp-ip Subject: RE: TCP/IP certification Message-ID: <9049@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Sat, 13-Jul-85 15:00:39 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.9049 Posted: Sat Jul 13 15:00:39 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 14-Jul-85 09:23:48 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.ARPA Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 18 From: David C. Plummer in disguiseDate: 12 Jul 1985 20:53 PST From: Art Berggreen DCA (Defense Communications Agency) is setting up a certification system for protocols used with the DDN (Defense Data Network), including TCP/IP. I don't believe the TCP/IP testing is very far along, but they should be contacted for details. I'm curious to know what happens when somebody fails certification. What happens when the certification tests discover Unix sending blatently wrong FTP and SMTP reply codes? What happens when a system does not handle overlapping segments (either correctly or at all)? [There were a lot of these, many now fixed.] What happens when the TCP/IP is a product with a development to field time on the order of months?