Protocols Should Be Designed by Amateurs

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Protocols are not handed down from on high, they start as a seed, which grows into a massive tree. These seeds are no more than ideas, planted by individuals, perhaps in a Slack channel or, more formally, as an RFC. Protocols should be vetted by experts, but they should be designed by amateurs, he says. He says he has a smorgasbord of protocols designed in his teens and early twenties itching to get out, protocols that describe ways to communicate with trusted people in untrustworthy world.