Re: [GSTP-devel] some plans

[Alexander <ale...@ne...>]

> 1) Convert the current documentation text file to RFC2629 format.
> RFC2629 specifies an xml dtd for Internet Drafts and RFC documents.
> There are tools to convert from the format to correctly formatted text
> as well as HTML at http://xml.resource.org/

Yup, sounds like the way to go. I suspect there are good tools to
convert this XML to txt?

> 2) Ask pesky questions to this list about everything in the
> specification that I can think of being non-optimal or unclear.

:)

> 3) Extend the documentation so that it can be used as an guide for
> protocol implementors, with information from the creators, of course

I see two things that really need documentation.
1) The protocol and implementation techniques.
2) The gstplib implementation.

> 4) Write a very simple command-line file GSTP client that works a bit
> like GNU wget without even looking at the reference implementation. If i
> succeed we can know that the specification serves it's purpose. Having a
> secondary independent implementation of the protocol is also good when
> we want to promote the protocol as an Internet standard (RFC).

gstpget(1) seems like a very suitable project. In theory you could use
gstplib, but from a RFC-suitability standpoint, this would not be the
best way to go.

> What do you fellows think about this plan? I must once again warn you
> that I don't have much time to put in, but i guess something is better
> than nothing.

GSTP is a slow moving project anyway.. there's no rush :)

//Alexander