But an experimental RFC is not a Proposed Standard, a proposed
standard, a document that is in the process of being considered
for standardization, or any other sort of standard or
prestandard.
There are people who propose this as a standard; in factual terms,
that makes it a proposed standard. Whether or not the fact of
publication as an experimental RFC would make it one, it is one
already.
If publication as an experimental RFC entails any sort of approval,
such approval is what a patented proposed software standard should not
get.
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