[interop] outcomes

[Peter Saint-Andre]

It's clear to me that we won't get the chance to test every last little
use case and protocol scenario in Portland, even for RFCs 3920 and 3921
(e.g., we haven't issued X.509 certificates for test servers, let alone
for clients). While we'll try to test as much as we can, I'd also like
to start planning how we can automate and improve some of our testing in
the future. That might include:

1. Public test servers pointed to via DNS (ejabberd.xmpp.com and so on).

2. CA-issued X.509 certificates for both servers and end users (I am
working to set up the JSF as an intermediate certification authority).

3. A repository of use cases and perhaps even test scripts.

4. The beginnings of a test harness.

5. A schedule for future "virtual" test events or test periods (e.g.,
revisit the use cases in October).

Some of these will help me write the Internet-Draft describing our
interoperability experience (not limited to our experience at the
interop event), which we'll use as input for advancing the XMPP RFCs to
Draft Standard. Others will help us in the future as we do more testing
(which I hope will become more natural and straightforward as a result
of our meeting and discussions in Portland).

I'd also like to discuss some of the proposed changes to and best
practices related to the RFCs, since they have an impact on our RFC
revision process. That would include:

JEP-0157: Contact Addresses for XMPP Services
          http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0157.html

JEP-0170: Recommended Order of Stream Feature Negotiation
          http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0170.html

JEP-0175: Best Practices for Use of SASL ANONYMOUS
          http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0175.html

JEP-0178: Best Practices for Use of SASL EXTERNAL
          http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0178.html

JEP-0185: Dialback Key Generation and Validation
          http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0185.html

Plus of course meeting each other in person and getting to know each
other better.

Finally, this is a bit of a dry run for holding more official developer
conferences (XMPPCon?), which I hope to start doing next year. Given how
disorganized I've been about this one, I conclude that we may need some
serious help with holding developer conferences. :-)

Anything else?

Peter

-- 
Peter Saint-Andre
Jabber Software Foundation
http://www.jabber.org/people/stpeter.shtml

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature
Size: 7358 bytes
Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Url : http://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/interop/attachments/20060719/1aa796d0/smime.bin