On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 8:51 AM Keith Moore <moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I believe your statement of intent. But I think it's fair to realize > that there is already tremendous pressure to deploy implementations > before they've been formally approved, and there's a danger that any > kind of distinguished "mark" will have the (unintended) effect of > promoting deployment of the marked version of a protocol. regardless of 'published or not' folk will always push for the early implementation of FOO before it has been 'ratified'. it's pretty clear that this happens, and that nothing about this discussion is going to change that.