On 5/5/09 06:05, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
Is there interest in being able to explicitly state such a policy?
None whatsoever. Simplify, simplify, simplify. One hash is good enough
for 99.99% of the users, and the rest should be implementing not eulogising.
Has anyone read the OSS Guide to Sabotage? In there it has a list of
things about how to break up a user group. One of them is to insist on
following rules because they are important, another advice is to always
refer things to a committee.
If it was updated today for IETF, it would say: always insist on the
right to variations in protocols, for future-proofing.
iang