On Jun 15, 2004, at 12:35 PM, wayne wrote:
I have to agree with this assessment. There doesn't appear to be a
rough consensus. However, the long standing IETF mantra has, to the
best of my knowledge, been "rough consensus *AND* working code". What
we lack with most proposals is working code.
I think implementations are a good thing, a very good thing.
However, RFC 2026 mentions that to get a Proposed Standard RFC
implementations are not required (though they are encouraged). To get
a standard from Proposed Standard to Draft Standard, two separate
interoperating implementations are required.
Our milestones explicitly says "PS" - for Proposed Standard.
-andy