Anyway, let me try an opinion of mine. If anyone is considering a protocol change, I would like to see their suggestions in public first. I wish a transparent history of how we change the protocol for what reasons. Whether people like the history or not, they can join or leave the network.

You might think it’s OK to start a discussion in a private channel somewhere and then have a public conversation at the end. I feel uneasy with that approach.

A curtain is enough to create a political structure. For instance, people wonder how to get their mistakes fixed. People wonder whether it helps to be on those private channels with influential people. To evaluate the influence of the private conversation, one has to examine what happens on those private channels, which is not possible for most people. The power of the curtain can only be judged inside the curtain.

So I left one such channel when a protocol change was discussed. I feel much better discussing protocol modifications on AllCoreDev-style channels that are written by several and can be seen by everyone.