<div dir="ltr">So I've been frustrated lately by the fact that Slack's IRC gateway isn't RFC 2812 compliant (<a href="https://github.com/bitwalker/exirc/issues/51">https://github.com/bitwalker/exirc/issues/51</a>)<div><br></div><div>In dealing with this I wondered why the crap they needed an engineer to go through the spec as a result of their server's response to figure out that this was an issue (they've added it to their bug tracker, so I have some amount of faith it might get fixed eventually - for now I'll paper over the issue in the client which reduces the stress on them to actually fix it though).</div><div><br></div><div>Should RFCs / protocols of this nature just come with something like a quickcheck model for their spec? Is anyone aware of prior art around this sort of thing aside from Quvic/Volvo that I could draw from if I wanted to fiddle in this arena?</div><div><br></div><div>I'd think that the ideal situation involves an open source quickcheck implementation to test a given protocol implementation against at least some of the RFC, and a means to run the tests against potential servers/clients, with badges potentially showing the percentage of the test that passes. This would allow economics to drive spec implementers towards correctness, which would save countless engineer-hours spent figuring out why the damn clients can't talk to the damn servers for a given spec.</div><div><br></div><div>Thoughts? Pipe dream? "Silly child, see A, B, and C for the many people who are already doing this?"<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Josh Adams<br></div>
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