Re: rough consensus and running code [was: Federation protocols]

On 13 June 2013 00:58, Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> wrote:

> Michał 'rysiek' Woźniak wrote:
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>>  Yup... rough consensus and running code, then the market tends to drive
>>> what gets adopted.
>>>
>> What the rough consensus is, please, can you tell me? Or point to a
>> document
>> that describes it?
>>
>
http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-resnick-on-consensus/?include_text=1


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> The bywords of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and about the
> only well proven standards process I know of:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Rough_consensus<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rough_consensus>
> http://www.ietf.org/tao.html
>
> Or as Dave Clark (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**David_D._Clark<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_D._Clark>)
> puts it:
> "/We reject: kings, presidents and voting//. //We believe in: rough
> consensus and running code./^" http://ietf.org/proceedings/**
> prior29/IETF24.pdf <http://ietf.org/proceedings/prior29/IETF24.pdf> <
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**David_D._Clark#cite_note-2<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_D._Clark#cite_note-2>
> >
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**David_D._Clark#cite_note-2<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_D._Clark#cite_note-2>
> >
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