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Date: Mon Jun 16 2003 - 17:43:51 CDT
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Bruce Lilly wrote:
> > This is a standards document, we can impose any kind of silly
> > requirements we want. We do want to impose requirements that will be
> > listened to,
>
> Do you really think authors will pay attention to "you MUST do foo
> and MUST NOT do bar, but the user may override that and either do bar
> or not do foo"?
Isn't that kind of what he said? The way an RFC works, we can mandate
anything we want as long as we mandate what people are going to do anyway.
The secret to leadership is to determine which way people are going to go,
then go there first shouting "follow me." That's an almost-quote...
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