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by kazinator 740 days ago
Why would we have interop conferences, when the only thing that matters is the implementation of the system you're using?
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The comment I'm ultimately replying to is this:

> In computing, the specification is the gold standard, followed by documented, committed implementation behaviors

my point is that a specification is not the gold standard, because it can be interpreted differently by different readers.

We need interop conferences to help identify the places where the specification is insufficient to fully and unambiguously describe the desired behaviours.

This can only happen because of input from implementors. And since the specifications are always evolving, they are always going to trail the implementations.