Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:02:08 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: RDS: no freely available protocol specification? | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Juliusz Chroboczek <Juliusz.Chroboczek@pps.jussieu.fr> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:07:45 +0100
> I am wondering whether we wish to encourage the use of proprietary > (undocumented) protocols, and I wish that the kernel crowd should really > try to put some pressure on the Oracle guys to get the RDS protocol spec > published as an RFC, or at the very least submitted as an Internet Draft, > before it is released as part of the Linux kernel.
There is nothing proprietary about a protocol for which you have the source code to a full implementation.
And having an RFC or even a draft for a protocol is not a prerequesite for it being included in the Linux kernel.
So put your bad-juju back in your pocket, kthx.
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