# little "regulation" on competing/extending RFC's

- Thread: https://externals.io/message/36769
- Original archive: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/36769
- Started by Lukas Kahwe Smith on 2008-04-02T17:21:50+00:00
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## #36769 — Lukas Kahwe Smith — 2008-04-02T17:21:50+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/36769#36769

Hi,

I unilaterally put in a "regulation" in place on the wiki on how to  
deal with competing/extending proposals, where the original RFC  
creator and would be contributors cannot agree on how to integrate the  
differences into the original RFC [1]. I already made a note of this  
on the wiki and the first such dispute has adopted this  
"regulation" [2]. However I realized, that I always said, that  
decisions happen on the mailinglist and not on the wiki I want to  
mention it here as well (and make any adjustments people feel are  
necessary):

"Note: An RFC page is effectively “owned” by the person that created  
it. If you want to add changes, get permission by the creator. If no  
agreement can be found, the only course of action is to create a  
competing RFC. In this case the old RFC page will be modified to  
become an intermediate page that points to all the competing RFC's."

regards,
Lukas

[1] http://wiki.php.net/rfc
[2] http://wiki.php.net/rfc/peclversioning