Still, Hoffman recognizes that the market is so wrought with power struggles that vendors have created their own interoperability bottleneck. It's not the standards process that's going so slowly. Vendors won't get on the phone with one another. . . . A lot of them do want to cooperate, but only to get interoperability on whatever feature is hot today. For that kind of short-term cooperation, vendors can turn to the IPSec Developers Forum.
Developers can use the forum for free.
Md. Yet for all this testing, none of the results are available to users. The rationale is that if the public knew about failed tests, vendors wouldn't want to work on interoperability. However, one exception exists. ICSA publishes lab notes for products that receive the ICSA stamp. These document exactly how interoperability was achieved.