Re: RDS: no freely available protocol specification?

[David Miller]

From: Juliusz Chroboczek <Juliusz.Chroboczek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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