Op-Ed Contributor - How the Internet Got Its Rules - NYTimes.com - 2 views
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We thought maybe we’d put together a few temporary, informal memos on network protocols, the rules by which computers exchange information
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Less important than the content of those first documents was that they were available free of charge and anyone could write one. Instead of authority-based decision-making, we relied on a process we called “rough consensus and running code.”
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Still fearful of sounding presumptuous, I labeled the note a “Request for Comments.”
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