On Sep 3, 2013, at 4:40 PM, Barry Leiba <barryleiba@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The only concern I have is that once we do this -- declare that PS is > always more mature than that -- we can't go back. Do we *really* want > to say that we will never again approve a PS spec that's partially > baked? It seems as if we already do this. It's not unusual to publish things as experimental when we don't think they're baked, and that seems entirely appropriate. The fact is that anything that has PS on it at this point has had _very_ thorough review. Frequently PS have multiple implementations. I think that what you are describing is actually the status quo—it would be very hard to get something really half-baked published as PS at this juncture. That doesn't mean that every PS is high quality, but neither are they half-baked.