On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Frank Ellermann wrote:
Intentionally disrupting other running experiments or breaking
standards is also dubious.
Maybe the latter is acceptable if it's a documented purpose of
the voluntary experiment, and causes no "real harm" for others.
Breaking standards would be ok if it was agreed upon by IETF
with last-call (which is in fact available for experimental
documents) but without it you cant issue such a document as
an RFC and say its ok when original STD was agreed upon by
entire IETF (that of course does not mean the experimental
RFC should meet same high criteria as when you have RFC to
actually depreciate or replace a standard).
Just by itself without last call experiment is probably ok when
you have some new concept that needs to be tested and documented
and its use should would cause any significant problems for anything
else. In such a case experiment is there to basically confirm if there
are enough interest in the concept to go further and it does what
is expected and then further standardization maybe pursued.
--
William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william(_at_)elan(_dot_)net
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