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RE: What's an experiment?

2006-02-20 09:13:00

From: Eliot Lear [mailto:lear(_at_)cisco(_dot_)com] 


Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote:
That overlooks the fact that often the protocol is written up after 
the experiment, the results of which are described elsewhere.

The main ongoing experiments are of the form: 'I believe that the 
protocol approach described in this document to address real 
deployment needs better than the WG consensus.

I agree this happens.  I don't think these are experiments 
and I don't think they should be labeled as such.

Fine if you want to support the creation of an alternative label that
provides a better description.

If the idea is to attempt to further centralize control then it would be
unwise.

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