Re: [rfc-i] "community" for the RFC series

Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Fri, 04 October 2019 21:39 UTC

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> I don't think there's any point in trying to define it precisely;
> we just have to recognise that it's not just "us" for any
> reasonable definition of "us", so we have a broad responsibility.

and we should have the honesty and the humility not to put words in
the mouths of those neither present nor having the floor to speak for
themselves.

randy
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