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1. Caleb James DeLisle (cjd@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Apr-2022 05:54:50 UTC Caleb James DeLisle

   > We reject: kings, presidents, and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and running code.

   When the centrally planned top-down OSI network architecture lost to simple "unprofessional" TCP/IP, and then tried to rewrite history to cast TCP/IP as an implementation of ISO stack.

   https://courses.cs.duke.edu//common/compsci092/papers/govern/consensus.pdf

   • michiel (michiel@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Saturday, 02-Apr-2022 05:54:49 UTC michiel

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     @cjd that same 'rough consensus' now allows Google to dictate web standards. The purpose of democracy is never to make the decision-making process more efficient.

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   • Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 02-Apr-2022 06:10:48 UTC Wolf480pl

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     • michiel

     @michiel @cjd damn, I forgot about WebRTC

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   • Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 02-Apr-2022 06:10:49 UTC Wolf480pl

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     • michiel

     @michiel @cjd I think IETF would not allow an internet standard with a single implementation, and I don't think they're capable of iterating at such breakneck speed as WHATWG