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Re: What's an experiment?

2006-02-17 08:52:57
Christian Huitema wrote:
For the IETF, there is a tension between two goals: protocols that are
reviewed and documented, so there can be multiple implementations; and
protocols that have a high quality so they run very well on the
Internet. If the IETF focuses a lot on quality and makes it too hard to
do #4, experimenters will end up doing #2 or #3, and there will be less
review and less open documentation.

So, there has to be a balance.
  

I really don't think either (1) or (2) in Joe's message calls for all
that much effort, with one exception: some investigation should be done
to ensure no harm.  That can take work in some cases.  Also, end host
experiments are probably easier to claim no harm is occurring than say,
routers or mail servers.

Eliot

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