From: Henry Spencer (henry@spsystems.net)
Date: Wed May 08 2002 - 23:40:50 CDT
On Tue, 7 May 2002, Russ Allbery wrote:
> In general, I'll make the comment that if someone has a really great idea
> about how to improve Usenet and it doesn't get implemented by any major
> server, it's quite possible and possibly likely that either the idea isn't
> actually a good idea or it is a sound idea that doesn't actually improve
> things sufficiently to be worth implementing.
Or the implementors are waiting to see how Usefor is going to define it.
> If no one bothered to write
> and deploy the code, it's rather questionable whether it should be in a
> standards-track document.
Note that the entry point of the standards track, Proposed Standard,
explicitly does not require implementation experience (although it is
considered desirable... but note that *most* of our draft does have such
experience behind it). The question of whether some detail has actually
been implemented enough to be worth bothering about is properly revisited
at Draft Standard stage.
Henry Spencer
henry@spsystems.net