On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote: > On 2014-11-01, alister <alister.nospam.w...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > > "The IETF motto is 'rouch consesus and running code'" > > -- Scott Bradner (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates) > > I don't get it, and googling didn't help. What is "rouch" consensus?
Presumably "rough consensus". As long as most people agree (as opposed to total consensus, where *everyone* agrees), and as long as the code can be made to run, perfection is a luxury hat the IETF doesn't strive for. It's a form of "practicality beats purity" as it applies to standards development. The joke may be that this is only approximately correct spelling, as well as only approximate consensus and approximately working code. Or that might just be a transcription error. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
