Re: recommendation against publication of draft-cerpa-necp-02.txt

[Fred Baker]

At 12:44 AM 4/11/00 -0700, Derrell D. Piper wrote:
>And there you have the argument for publishing this document.  I much prefer a
>model where we allow for free exchange of ideas, even bad ones.

hear! hear!

>  I tend to
>believe that if someone took the time to write up a document that there's
>probably some reason for it.  So let's call this an experimental RFC and get
>on with life.  Isn't that what the experimental category denotes?

Well, that's one way to interpret it. I think I'd prefer the words of RFC 
2026, which imply that it is simply an idea, something being experimented 
with, and that the document represents a snapshot of the work at a 
particular point in time. We let time and experience tell us whether it is 
a good idea or a bad one, and if you want to participate in the experiment, 
you had best contact the experimenter, as things may have progressed since 
the document was published.