> No, I disagree. I think the spec should document the most basic
> essentials: how to send a command, how to receive a reply, what the
> commands are, what the replies are and what the error codes are.
>
> I think its very important that a protocol spec be completely
> language nuteral and carry no implementation details.
Um ... I agree with you. Isn't that what I said? It's what I meant.
> I do agree its a good idea to produce some base code that can be
> distributed, but I think this effort should be completely seperate
> from the spec.
Yeah. That. :)
I guess what I was saying was that after the spec is created, efforts
should be put into creating base classes, not implementations specific
to anyone's own needs or data structures.
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