Re: What's an experiment?

At 14:16 16/02/2006, Joe Baptista wrote:
> Thats happening regardless of the IETF - www.public-root.com, 
> www.inaic.com and www.unifiedroot.com. Failed experiments result in 
> successful evolution.
Dear Joe,
these are individual experiments we all carried. And this gave us 
some experience. It is like publishing an RFC for experimentation. I 
think Brian is asking for more. A generalised concept. This is what 
ICANN called for. This is what we tried to achieve with 
http://dot-root.com : a real test bed, for these kind of applications 
to work together ad experimenda. It told us much. But we closed it. 
This was good experience towards the "unitry" project I introduced in 
Luxembourg, at the ccTLD Meeting.
If I take your example, I would say experiment should be about how 
public-root can help unifiedroot, how can they mutually monitor and 
inform inaic if they have been hacked. Also, the applications you 
quote are here to stay. By nature experimentation is temporary - but 
a test-bed can be permanent. I know the mutual help spirit between 
open roots, but experimentation is about joint reporting, result 
sharing, common best eventual practices and generic code being produced.
I think if the IETF considers this, everyone should be more than 
welcome. The problem is to organise a conceptual framework. Then to 
build and maintain a test environment. May be now the IASA could 
help? Also users should clearly know that a few things may be 
different. Or if standard conditions are simulated to benefit from 
real traffic and test other issues. For example the Klensin's IDN 
test project: we should first know about it.
I think that the first target of experimentation is to convince 
everyone. Open and alternative roots for example are everywhere and 
this will increase. But they have not convinced the (RFC 3774) 
"affinity group". It shows that their first requirement to convince 
would be a total transparency and progressive innovation (risk 
containment). Open/alternative roots have always be seens as 
"commercials" and therefore as opaque (even when private or 
non-profit), and the vector of a radical change (even if it is more 
and more on us).
As a general remark, one the problems of the IETF is there are too 
many people who want to win, and only a few who are looking for being 
convinced ....
jfc  

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