Hi Tony,
Sorry for tentatively mis-underestanding your statement. However, I
don't understand this:
Thus, the only thing that an AD would spend the political
capital on would be something controversial.
I believe that my musing about paths to an experimental RFC was
uninformed. Someone who knows much more about this than me wrote to
me offlist with:
There are in fact 4 different ways to get an experimental RFC
published.
It can be published as an IETF WG Product.
It can be published as an AD Sponsored Individual document.
It can be published as an IRTF sponsored document.
It can be published as an Independent Submission, subject to
review arranged by the ISE.
Only one of those four requires a working group, and only two
of them involve the IETF.
I still think that for an experimental protocol to be developed well
- with RFCs or not - there needs to be a bunch of people to work
either directly on the protocol and its software, test network etc.
or to take a keen interest in it and provide feedback.
- Robin
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