Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
Julian,
not speaking for anyone but myself.....
one matter of principle:
are you of the opinion that the IESG should try to police which
experiments get run on the Internet by refusing to publish RFCs
documenting possibly-conflicting experments?
Both of these documents were published at the request of their authors.
I know that ways in which they could cause conflict were pointed out to
the authors, and that both authors upheld their requests to publish.
If you ask the IESG to assert the power to police this kind of
experiment, please make sure you will be happy with the result if they
agree with you.....
Harald
And, of course, the idea of the IESG "policing" anything that happens on
the Internet has to be kind of silly, given that two consenting
endpoints can send just about anything to each other, especially above
the IP layer, and our obvious lack of any enforcement mechanism.
Can we just not go here? I agree with Bill's note - if the IESG helps
experiments avoid gratuitous conflicts, that is wonderful - but for more
than that, the IESG is working very hard just to get the STANDARD
protocols out :-)
Spencerr
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