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RFCs are written and discussed, but there’s no mechanism by which they’re formally adopted or rejected. Organizations choose to implement them (or don’t); they become standards through widespread voluntary adoption.
This means that, if engineering organizations naively adopt an RFC process without bolting on some sort of explicit decision-making step, the process quickly breaks down. Without some sort of process to move towards a decision, **the default outcome of an RFC is “no”**
RFC processes are a poor fit for most organizations
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Tramps work, hoboes won't, and bums can't.
Common, selfdefining phrase heard among the men in the freight yards.
End of the Line
John Free
Philosopher Joanna Macy writes of the oblivion we manufacture for ourselves to keep us from looking environmental problems straight in the eye. She quotes R. J. Clifton, a psychologist studying human response to catastrophe: “Suppression of our natural responses to disaster is part of the disease of our time. The refusal to acknowledge these responses causes a dangerous splitting. It divorces our mental calculations from our intuitive, emotional, and biological embeddedness in the matrix of life.
That split allows us passively to acquiesce in the preparations for our own demise."
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
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