On Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:07:10 -0700 SM <sm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > As the draft was not approved by the IESG as a "Proposed Standard", > the fact is that most people in the IETF community would not consider > it as a proposed standard. > > "The "Experimental" designation typically denotes a specification > that is part of some research or development effort. Such a > specification is published for the general information of the > Internet technical community and as an archival record of the work, > subject only to editorial considerations and to verification that > there has been adequate coordination with the standards process." > > Publication as an "Experimental" RFC does make a document a > standard. The "Status of This Memo" which is prominently displayed > on the first page of the RFC mentions that: > > "This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet > community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind." Put another way, an Experimental RFC is no more an IETF standard than a conference or journal publication. Someone has done something that is perceived to be of enough interest to the community to publish as an RFC, but it is manifestly *not* an IETF standard of any kind. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf