- From: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 02:07:50 +0200
- To: Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>
- Cc: "public-fedsocweb@w3.org" <public-fedsocweb@w3.org>
Received on Thursday, 13 June 2013 00:08:19 UTC
On 13 June 2013 00:58, Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> wrote: > 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? >> > http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-resnick-on-consensus/?include_text=1 > >> > 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> > > > > -- > In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. > In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra > > >
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