Tom,

In this particular case, I believe the choices are Experimental or Historic.  
I’m fine with either.

T


> On Jun 13, 2022, at 8:43 AM, tom petch <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> From: Lsr <[email protected]> on behalf of Acee Lindem (acee) 
> <[email protected]>
> Sent: 10 June 2022 15:10
> 
> Initially, there was a lot interest and energy in reducing the flooding 
> overhead in dense drafts. Now, it seems the interest and energy has waned. 
> IMO, this draft contains some very valuable extensions to the IGPs. I 
> discussed this with the editors and one suggestion was to go ahead and 
> publish the draft as “Experimental”. However, before doing this I’d like to 
> get the WG’s opinion on making it experimental rather standards track. 
> Additionally, I know there were some prototype implementations. Have any of 
> those been productized?
> 
> <tp>
> The trouble with experimental is what happens next?  Does it stay 
> experimental for ever or is there some assessment at some point when it 
> becomes Standards Track?  What are the criteria?  I am not aware of an RFC 
> describing such a process and the IPPM WG seemed uncertain what to do with 
> RFC8321 and RFC8889 when such an issue arose.
> 
> The shepherd report for 8321 said
> 'the measurement utility of this extension still is to be demonstrated at a 
> variety of scales
>   in a plurality of network conditions'
> as the justification for experimental but did not state how that might later 
> be demonstrated.
> 
> Tom Petch
> 
> Thanks,
> Acee
> 
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