[LEAPSECS] a modest proposal

[christopher hoover]

>>One way would to get the spec written into a major US gov't procurement

bid

>>as a requirement.



> Yes, that will give you a proof of concept implementation.


I wonder if I haven't explained myself well.  

If you get the requirement written into a major procurement proposal, along
with establishing a qualifying test suite -- these are typically run by
NIST, this alone will get a number of vendors to implement it in major
operating systems.  (And hopefully one of them will donate the
implementation to open source.)

This is the story -- possibly apocryphal -- of the origin of the POSIX layer
in Window NT.  (NIST has a POSIX compliance test suite.)

Vendors do a lot of extra work to make it possible to win these contracts.
Sometimes it is stupid make-work, like the OSI stack.

-ch