[e2e] Are we doing sliding window in the Internet?

[Randy Bush]

>> But who decides whether a protocol is experimental, or good enough
>> for production use?
> That's supposed to happen in the IETF. The protocol in question is
> being purported as experimental, not optional standards-track.

a protocol is experimental when someone is trying to convince us to try 
it and giving us the code to do so on common platform(s).  (before then, 
it's just hot air)

a protocol is production when customers want it and are willing to pay
for at least the costs of deploying it.

btw, what's "the IETF?" [0]

randy

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[0] - http://rip.psg.com/~randy/051000.sigcomm-ivtf.pdf