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

The standards elephant of yesterday - OSI

The standards elephant of today - it's right here.

As the Internet and its community grows, how do we manage the process of change and growth?

• Open process -- let all voices be heard.
• Closed process -- make progress
• Quick process -- keep up with reality.
• Slow process -- leave time to think
• Market drive process -- the future is commercial
• Scaling driven process -- the future is the Internet

Clark, D., "A Cloudy Crystal Ball - Visions of theFuture", Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Internet Engineering Task Force, pages 539-543, July 1992, <http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/24.pdf>.

See also [[RFC7282]], On Consensus and Humming in the [[IETF]]