> But how many implementations currently exist? One. I get your point about the inertia of there being one de facto implementation, but that’s not quite true.

> But how many implementations currently exist? One. I get your point about the inertia of there being one de facto implementation, but that’s not quite true. For example Glib’s DBus library contains an (almost) fully featured server implementation. Anyway I’m not all that worried about the parser in particular. For one DBus wire format is well defined and pretty straightforward. This isn’t ASN.1. Actually it’s probably way simpler than modern DNS with EDNS, DNSSEC etc.