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Re: What's an experiment?

Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com> Sat, 18 February 2006 17:06 UTC

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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.

Eliot

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