[mdx] MDX protocol discussions

[Lucy Lynch]

On Wed, 7 Jul 2010, Sam Hartman wrote:

> OK.  If you want experimental track, there are fairly few situations
> where finding an AD is a good idea.  It will almost certainly go faster
> if you don't.  You don't get an IETF document at the end--you get an
> non-IETF RFC. However there are few cases where that distinction
> matters.

You'll want to look at the Independent Submission process:
http://www.rfc-editor.org/indsubs.html

and Nevil Brownlee is the current Independent Submissions Editor
(see tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5620 for details on the job).

Note that "experimental" has a special meaning in ietf speak:

"Specifications that are not on the standards track are labeled with
  one of three "off-track" maturity levels:  "Experimental",
  "Informational", or "Historic".  The documents bearing these labels
  are not Internet Standards in any sense." (rfc2026)

but ...BGP started out in the experimental batch

http://www.rfc-editor.org/categories/rfc-experimental.html

this is a quicker path, but also more scoped (limited to the
experiment) but that seems to fit this case just fine.

> --Sam
>