On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Frank Ellermann wrote:
Intentionally disrupting other running experiments or breaking standards is also dubious. Maybe the latter is acceptable if it's a documented purpose of the voluntary experiment, and causes no "real harm" for others.
Breaking standards would be ok if it was agreed upon by IETF with last-call (which is in fact available for experimental documents) but without it you cant issue such a document as an RFC and say its ok when original STD was agreed upon by entire IETF (that of course does not mean the experimental RFC should meet same high criteria as when you have RFC to actually depreciate or replace a standard). Just by itself without last call experiment is probably ok when you have some new concept that needs to be tested and documented and its use should would cause any significant problems for anything else. In such a case experiment is there to basically confirm if there are enough interest in the concept to go further and it does what is expected and then further standardization maybe pursued. -- William Leibzon Elan Networks william@xxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf