[mdx] MDX protocol discussions
Lucy Lynch
lynch at isoc.org
Wed Jul 7 12:46:50 PDT 2010
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
>
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