Re: RE : Re: Federation protocols

Dnia środa, 12 czerwca 2013 o 21:29:50 Miles Fidelman napisał(a):
> Simon Tennant wrote:
> > On 12 June 2013 20:38, Michał 'rysiek' Woźniak <rysiek@fwioo.pl
> > 
> > <mailto:rysiek@fwioo.pl>> wrote:
> >     Again, show me such a de facto standard, please. And until you do,
> >     I will
> >     voice my opinion we need interoperability. I don't really care if
> >     it's interoperability between *instances* or *implementations* as
> >     long as it is a
> >     (de facto) standard and without a doubt (by a huge margin) *most*
> >     of the libre
> >     people using this kind of technology use this particular
> >     protocol/standard.
> > 
> > That's not how successful standardisation works.
> > 
> > At one point the gopher protocol was THE way to access information on
> > the internet.
> > 
> > Then some annoying little upstart at CERN started trying to get people
> > to use his standard for hypertext. And nobody wanted to even have him
> > speak at hypertext conferences. But he kept on working on it and
> > building *real-world* use cases and applications and a software
> > ecosystem.
> > 
> > Others started contributing code to the NCSA browser and httpd.
> > 
> > HTML was successful because someone went and built something that was
> > incompatible with the gopher protocol.
> > 
> > THEN it was standardised.
> > 
> > Bottom up works. Top down gives us standards that only a telco could
> > love.
> 
> 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?

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Pozdrawiam
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak

Fundacja Wolnego i Otwartego Oprogramowania