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Re: [apps-discuss] Experimental (was - Re: Review of draft-ietf-appsawg-file-scheme)

"John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Wed, 13 April 2016 20:08 UTC

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>So the idea behind Experimental -- and I see this as especially strong 
>/because/ there already is very wide use of the file: construct -- is to 
>publish the draft and see whether the community adopts use of it, to 
>cover that existing practise.

I coulda sworn that's what Proposed Standard means.

R's,
John

PS: More concretely, what's the timeline for the experiment and how
will we tell what the results are?

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