From: Scott Kitterman [mailto:scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Fri 26/10/2007 4:00 PM
To: ietf@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Experimental makes sense for tls-authz
On Friday 26 October 2007 15:32, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> On 2007-10-27 07:04, Randy Presuhn wrote:
> > Hi -
> >
> > The existence of IPR claims potentially relevant to the implementation
> > of a specification has never been sufficient grounds to block the
> > publication of that specification as an RFC. Given the unfortunate
> > history of this work, publication of draft-housley-tls-authz-extns
> > as experimental seems to be the most sensible path out of this mess.
>
> I agree. The DOS attack on this list seems to be from people
> who haven't read RFC 2026 and use meaningless phrases like
> "experimental standard." In fact, publishing this as an experiment
> to see if it gets implemented and deployed despite the IPR issue
> seems like *exactly* the right thing to do.
Just make sure you aren't running an experiment on the results of ignoring the
IETF rules not having signficant consuequences.
Scott K
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