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Sometimes consensus is impossible. You have to move on without it. Either you get stasis, or gradual change, or revolution or fracture/fork and no matter what you get dissent, consequences and cost.

Consensus doesn't always exist. Its great to build it and its great to seek it.



I don't think consensus needs to be unanimously affirmative in order to make progress. Even dissent can be a form of consensus, in that everyone in this group acknowledges the proposed course of action, and have formed their positions relative to it.


That's ietf rough consensus. Harder in a dev team i think. But you may be right.




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