Standards

Mark Allman mallman at grc.nasa.gov
Wed Feb 19 11:37:41 CET 2003


> RFC 2001, which was a Proposed Standard, and are updated in RFC 3390,
> which is a Proposed Standard ...
> 
> Transport Is Different, but we seem to be using Experimental for
> something pretty close to "a proposed standard" - that's what we did
> with RFC 3465, anyway. The idea was to let Appropriate Byte Counting
> "age" before it was widely deployed, and Experimental was intended
> to discourage wide deployment...

(And, what we did with RFC2414, which was experimental and turned
into 3390 which is PS.)

allman


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