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Please note that this guide is descriptive, not normative. That is to say, it is explicitly uninteresteddoes innot sortingdeal outwith the ongoing controversy over how the community and those involved in RFCs should behave. It is based on empirical observation of what arguments have worked and whatwhich ones have not, as well as upon discussions with editors about what they pay attention to.

There are three very important things to realize about RFCs.:

#They are a request for comments, to the entire world, not a court hearing;

#Product is much more important than process.

#If they do not resolve the situation they lead to ArbCom cases (see corresponding essay on ArbCom cases).

Almost everything you need to know about making or responding to an RFC is an extension of one of those three facts.