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

Dnia czwartek, 13 czerwca 2013 o 00:58:33 Miles Fidelman napisał(a):
> 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: (...)
> 
> 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./^" (...)

I'm sorry, I wasn't clear enough here. What I mean wasn't "what does rough 
consensus mean in general" but "what the rough consensus is in this particular 
case".

My point being, there is none, and we're not doing anything to arrive at one.

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Pozdrawiam
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak

Fundacja Wolnego i Otwartego Oprogramowania

Received on Wednesday, 12 June 2013 23:30:24 UTC