Ms. Blackman is not advocating certification for its own sake. The piece that I think was left unsaid was that there's all these cool specs for features, and users have a real desire to have those features, yet client haven't implemented them.
As a case in point, I refer to a fairly-recent thread in this very list on a "deficiency of the protocol"[1] for file transer. The findings: not every client tested implemented file transfer according to spec. Yet the file transfer specs have been available for nearly a year.
How could certification help? If we had certification, it would be a certainty that a list of certified clients would be available. A user could obtain the list of clients "certified for file transfer", and know that their chances of success are vastly greater than if they just started downloading clients.
Yes! Thank you for saying what I've been trying to say, in a much more concise and straightforward manner than I was. :)
--Rachel
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