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Re: Last Call: <draft-resnick-on-consensus-05.txt> (On Consensus and Humming in the IETF) to Informational RFC

Ted Lemon <ted.lemon@nominum.com> Mon, 07 October 2013 20:35 UTC

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Subject: Re: Last Call: <draft-resnick-on-consensus-05.txt> (On Consensus and Humming in the IETF) to Informational RFC
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On Oct 7, 2013, at 3:34 PM, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote:
> So I'd like to dispute Ted's point that by publishing a version of
> resnick-on-consensus as an RFC, we will engrave its contents in stone.
> If that's the case, we have an even deeper problem than misunderstandings
> of rough consensus.

Right, I think what Ted is describing is a BCP, not an Informational RFC.

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