Rough Consensus And Running Code
We reject: kings, presidents and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and running code.
The standards elephant of yesterday - OSI
The standards elephant of today - it’s right here.
As the Internet and its community grows, how do we manage the process of change and growth?
- Open process — let all voices be heard.
- Closed process — make progress
- Quick process — keep up with reality.
- Slow process — leave time to think
- Market drive process — the future is commercial
- Scaling driven process — the future is the Internet
Clark, D., “A Cloudy Crystal Ball - Visions of theFuture”, Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Internet Engineering Task Force, pages 539-543, July 1992, <http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/24.pdf>.