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Re: When is a 3933 experiment necessary? [Was: Last Call: <draft-farrell-ft-03.txt> (A Fast-Track way to RFC with Running Code) to Experimental RFC]

2013-01-31 20:32:43

On 1/31/2013 5:41 PM, Donald Eastlake wrote:
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Dave Crocker <dhc(_at_)dcrocker(_dot_)net> 
wrote:
      We are a diverse community.  Absent very, very strong consensus that a
problem is serious enough to warrant a change, the community is not likely
to line up automatically behind a proposal.  We will always have some people
who prefer no change and some who offer their different, favorite
approaches, or and some who offer a zillion tweaks.  In the aggregate, that
makes for entropy, not consensus.

   "It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to
take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its
success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of
things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done
well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may
do well under the new."
                     Niccolo Machiavelli



Nice.

Might be worth adding that to the Intros for all IETF process and structure documents...

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 Dave Crocker
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