On 2/16/2006 2:01 PM, Joe Touch wrote:
Eric A. Hall wrote:
On 2/15/2006 12:19 PM, Joe Touch wrote:
There are two different potential intentions to 'Experimental':
1. to conduct an experiment, as Eliot notes below, i.e.,
to gain experience that a protocol 'does good' 'in the wild'
2. to gain experience that a protocol does no harm 'in the wild'
There is a third option, which is "we are not sure how this will work, or
if it will even work at all really, but we are confident enough in its
design stability to release it in limited form for further study"
That's #1 - if it doesn't provide some gain (utility to someone),
there's no point in the experiment ;-)
I think #1 is closer to what we use Proposed Standard for--to "gain
experience that a protocol 'does good'".
The scenario I proposed is for when you know that there are upsides and
downsides but you want to see which one comes out on top by exposing it to
scale/weirdness that is only found in the real world
--
Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/
Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/
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