RE: What's an experiment?

"Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <pbaker@verisign.com> Mon, 20 February 2006 16:07 UTC

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> From: Eliot Lear [mailto:lear@cisco.com] 

> 
> Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote:
> > That overlooks the fact that often the protocol is written up after 
> > the experiment, the results of which are described elsewhere.
> >
> > The main ongoing experiments are of the form: 'I believe that the 
> > protocol approach described in this document to address real 
> > deployment needs better than the WG consensus.
> 
> I agree this happens.  I don't think these are experiments 
> and I don't think they should be labeled as such.

Fine if you want to support the creation of an alternative label that
provides a better description.

If the idea is to attempt to further centralize control then it would be
unwise.

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