HURRAH
Dave Clark: “We reject: kings, presidents and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and running code.”
I can think of a LOT of other places where this method would be transformational.
UK Parliament for one!
HUMMING about standards is NOT VOTING, says IETF RFC
It's nice to know that the 'net boffins of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), while they're dealing with trivia such as building an NSA-proof Internet, working out the next generation of routing protocols, making sure our VoIP calls connect, and slinging the 'net into the outer planets, can still find time for the …
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Thursday 26th June 2014 02:26 GMT Yes Me
Re: HURRAH
Dave Clark's a US citizen who lives in the Boston area. You may recall that they rejected a King, and the UK Parliament, some time ago. Rejecting Presidents and voting would still be contentious I guess. But the real message here is that if the opinions on a technology standard are split 51:49, the discussion isn't done yet. Voting on technical choices is a really dumb idea.
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