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Jeremy Howard wrote: My plan for this list is to strongly encourage RFC maintainers to work > together to remove conflicts and incompatibilities from their RFCs. This > will sometimes require retiring a number of RFCs and writing a new > consolidated one. > > My hope is that we can have a single set of frozen RFCs in a month's time, > with incompatible or redundant RFCs withdrawn. This is not my expectation, > however. I expect that there will be some issues on which we fail to reach > concensus. I these cases we should be able to identify the key issues we are > at odds about and put them into conflicting RFCs that reference each other. > > In the end, I trust Larry to make good in-or-out decisions if we give him > good input. We have a responsibility to try and find the 'right answer' > where there is one, and compromise where it is appropriate. This is a good enough plan, and more or less what I envisage as a sensible process. But as a scientist I distrust all this deference to one single authority. KarlThread Previous | Thread Next