Re: Informational vs Something-Else

Frank Kastenholz <kasten@ftp.com> Fri, 05 May 1995 20:45 UTC

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 > One observation: in parallel with the "end run in progress" and "Really Bad
 > Idea" categories for Informational, there are the "This is a Known Bad
 > Idea", "This 'experiment' has been attempted before and succeeded in
 > demonstrating that this is a lousy idea", and "There is already a Standard
 > in this area, this isn't it, and the authors offer no reason to believe that
 > their 'experiment' will offer any improvement" categories of Experimental.
 > Experimental should get the same treatment as Informational, with the new
 > class of RFC also being the alternative.

call them internet experiment notes


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