[Python-Dev] Significance of informational PEPs (original) (raw)

Jeremy Hylton jeremy@zope.com
Thu, 18 Apr 2002 14:04:42 -0400

I just glaned at RFC 2026, which describes in Internet standards process including the various kinds of RFCs. They have two designations that are related to our informational PEPs: informational and experimental.

It would be good for us to have experimental PEPs, I think. The three name optimization PEPs fall in this category at the moment.

The informational spec seems to be a broad catch-all category, just like for PEPs:

An "Informational" specification is published for the general information of the Internet community, and does not represent an Internet community consensus or recommendation. The Informational designation is intended to provide for the timely publication of a very broad range of responsible informational documents from many sources, subject only to editorial considerations and to verification that there has been adequate coordination with the standards process (see section 4.2.3).

BTW, I didn't like the title of the structured text PEP because it had standard in its title, which seems contradictory for an informational PEP.

Jeremy