Hi,
I have just published a draft that proposes an alternative to Stephen's
"fast track". My proposal simply allows authors to document, in a
semi-standard way, whatever implementations exist for their protocol, as
well as their interoperability.
http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-sheffer-running-code-00.txt
I believe this can achieve the same goal, which is to apply preferred
treatment to protocols that have been implemented, and with a lot less
process overhead. It also leaves much more leeway for individual working
groups to apply their own procedures and customs.
Similarly to Stephen's proposal, we can use a process experiment (per
RFC 3933) to gauge the effectiveness of this one.
I am looking forward to comments and discussion on this list.
Yaron