[tap-l] Test Anything Protocol as an IETF draft/RFC

[Salve J Nilsen]

Hi, Chris & Lisa

I had a talk with Harald T. Alvestrand <harald at alvestrand.no> a while back, and 
he recommended me to contact you guys/the IETF Apps area about finding a way to 
get TAP (Test Anything Protocol) through the IETF standards track.

Quickly, about TAP: It's basically a unidirectional, single-channel, 
transport-independent protocol for communicating test successes/failures and 
metadata between any TAP producer and a consumer which aggregates and reports 
the results.

http://testanything.org/
http://testanything.org/wiki/index.php/TAP_Producers
http://testanything.org/wiki/index.php/TAP_Consumers

Earlier versions of TAP has grown and been used in the Perl/CPAN community for 
many years now, and currently there is a consensus in the Perl QA crowd that 
TAP probably would be useful for other communities too. Therefore this mail.

Can you guys give us a few pointers on how to proceed on getting an IETF stamp 
of approval? :)

Feel free to ask any technical and/or philosophical questions related to TAP, 
I'm sure the guys on <tap-l at testanything.org> (CC'd) can help you with those. ;-)


Kind regards,

- Salve J. Nilsen <salvejn at met.no> (informally on behalf of tap-l)