Re: D-Link: incompetent or evil?

Philip Paeps <philip+usenet@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Rick Jones <rick.jones2@xxxxxx> wrote:
I'll go ahead and ask the naieve question - What sort of product
test would there be to test for adherence to a social contract?

Where I work, one of the (many!) checklists in the "requirements
engineering" phase of an embedded project would catch this sort of
thing. When you're designing something that is expected to "sit in
a corner and just work", you want to seriously limit the number of
volatile external "dependencies".

Has anything suggested that the D-link kit involved in this situation
would stop "just working" if it never reached an NTP server?

An actual "test" that would catch this sort of thing, would be a
simple tcpdump when the product is "idle" to make sure any traffic
it gnerates is absolutely necessary and if it's "external" thinking
about the sort of quantities you're expecting to release in the wild
and doing the maths.

That test still requires "thinking" about the big picture.

Perhaps I'm reading too much into the word "test" but I think of that
as something one runs against the "thing to be tested" that returns an
indication of passing or failing. At least initially the pass/fail
requires not expenditure of thought by a human being.

rick jones
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