- From: Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 18:58:33 -0400
- To: public-fedsocweb@w3.org
Michał 'rysiek' Woźniak wrote: > >> 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? > 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://www.ietf.org/tao.html Or as Dave 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_D._Clark#cite_note-2> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_D._Clark#cite_note-2> -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
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