[GLLUG] Internet Data Rate

[Jan van Bergen]

On 2020-05-13 17:20, James Courtier-Dutton via GLLUG wrote:
> On Wed, 13 May 2020 at 16:14, Marco van Beek via GLLUG
> <gllug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
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>> > ...MUST NOT (rfc2119)  ....
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>> I bet you know what BSI 0 is as well :-)
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> I once worked on a bid where the customer said we had to be 100%
> compliant to all the requirements.
> It was valued at about £10Million.
> So, I was working on the compliance statement, checking that our
> product and solution would be fully compliant and identifying what
> development work needed to be done, when I came across RFC 1149 on
> page 53 of the requirements. That RFC 1149 is surprising difficult to
> implement in software so we responded NC to it.
> Apparently, we were the only supplier that responded with a 99% 
> compliance SOC.
> We won the bid. :-)
That is a standard trick, when we created RFQs in a previous company we 
always put in a few April 1st RFCs. At least it would tell you who 
actually read the RFQ. And these were not small £10Million contracts 
either :)