Re: What's an experiment?

Dear Brian,
ICANN ICP-3 document called for a DNS test-bed to carry experiments 
in a given framework (to test various DNS evolutions including the 
end of the root). The document lists interesting criteria/conditions. 
Some are related to the DNS (non profit, ultimate agreement by the 
community). Of the head two are important: reversibility and no harm 
to the current operations. The "non profit" can be generailised: if a 
community effort is carried to commonly consider an evolution, every 
option should be considered and equally supported. Experiments must 
not be a way to impose personnal or affinity group doctrines and DoE 
(Denial of Evolution). Reversibility would also mean the result 
cannot be published as BCP. It may reflect the practice of a group. 
But it would not be acceptable to impose it to non participants as 
there is no proof it would scale - before the experience convers the 
whole network. This means that experience may be a way to deploy or 
to transition. Should the IETF has started a large scale IPv6 
experimentation, may be would we have IPv6 by competition to the 
RIRs. This has been considered.
jfc

At 16:06 15/02/2006, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
>When considering some recent appeals, the IESG discovered that
>we have very little guidance about the meaning of "experiments"
>in relation to Experimental RFCs. RFC 2026 refers to work which
>is "part of some research or development effort" and the IESG
>has adopted some guidelines to discriminate between Experimental
>and Informational documents (see
>http://www.ietf.org/u/ietfchair/draft-iesg-info-exp-01.html ).
>But beyond that, we do not know what constitutes an acceptable
>experiment on the Internet.
>
>The IESG notes that the community could establish a variety of
>guidelines describing what is and is not acceptable in experiments.
>Historically, the IESG has made decisions based on its perception
>that there is a strong desire in the community to publish technology
>that is being deployed experimentally.  We encourage community discussion
>and development of more specific guidelines on operational conflicts
>caused by experiments and how this should affect what we choose to
>publish.  (However we recommend that such discussion
>focus on the general issue rather than the specifics of any case.)
>
>   Brian Carpenter
>   for the IESG
>
>
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