Re: Another twist on my proposal
Frank Kastenholz <kasten@ftp.com> Fri, 05 May 1995 20:45 UTC
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> Instead of "Completely Random Application or Protocol", call the new > RFC class > > "Cannot Ever Be A Standard" > If you cannot convince the IESG you have A Good Idea, the > document can still be published as a CEBAS, but there is > a profound consequence: the protocol or technology described > in the document will be barred from ever being introduced > into the Standards Track "without fundamental revision or > reformulation." I'm not sure that I like this, even with the waivers. I could imagine that what seems like a completely stupid idea today and not worthy of even being considered for standardizing, could, because of changes of other circumstances, all of a sudden become A Really Good Idea. Or, we, the IESG might, not be as smart of farsighted as we might think that we are, and turn something into a CEBAS that shouldn't be. Suppose that it's 10 years ago and some people came up to us and said here's classless routing (CIDR). It might well have received a CEBAS rating then (run out of addresses? hah! never!). Yet today... -- Frank Kastenholz "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present... As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew" - A. Lincoln
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- Re: Another twist on my proposal Joel Halpern
- Re: Another twist on my proposal Frank Kastenholz