OPEN ISSUE: Standards Track

[Pekka Savola]

On Thu, 22 May 2003, Ted Lemon wrote:
> > If we add a step which should be easy to get to ("Experimental") and
> > actually try to make it so, we might still leave the folks enough
> > incentive to finish it and hone it to get it to the next level 
> > ("Proposed
> > Standard") -- or kill it completely as a bad idea.
> 
> Right now I think most people think of "Experimental" as "never going 
> to be a standard."   I know that's not what it was originally intended 
> to mean, but in practice that seems to be how people think of it.   I'm 
> reluctant to provide a specific example here because the one I can 
> think of is so controversial, but a lot of you probably remember the 
> conversation anyway.

Right.. which is why "Experimental" would be a good one.  What we want is 
a stable specification to get some limited testing and deployment, *NOT* 
widespread use.

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