On 16 Apr 2014, at 00:49, Spencer Dawkins
<spencerdawkins(_dot_)ietf(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
The idea was that you could declare a specific Internet-Draft "good enough
for now", for a variety of reasons (which varied from proposal to proposal),
and one of the reasons could be "we're going to stop working on this draft
until we get some implementation experience".
Working groups can do that today.
E.g., httpbis calls out some of their HTTP/2.0 drafts as “implementation
drafts”.
Giving this qualification a slightly more formal standing (as in a place in the
datatracker, an easily accessible list of implementation drafts on the web
site, etc.) might help inform implementers that aren't following the entire WG
mailing list traffic whether it is time to go ahead implementing.
(Of course, the interesting part will be how to properly manage the expectation
of stability.)
Grüße, Carsten