On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 11:55 AM Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:
I suspect people have been jumping off to something which is harder,
and perhaps for them, more interesting, which is signalling that a
particular I-D version is one that is worthy of being implemented, and
perhaps, deployed in a world where new implementations can be reliably
rolled out to a large percentage of the installed base in 2-3 months.
One answer is of course the experimental RFC, but the problem is that
a lot of people see RFC and immediately assume, it's a stable,
IETF-blessed standard documentation, regardless of the "Experimental"
tag on the top of every single page of said document.
An experimental RFC would not address the need I am talking about: we're
spinning one of these every 1-4 months, and doing WGLC, IETF-LC, and RFC
processing would cause far too much delay.
-Ekr
