What does that even mean?

Never heard such wording before... does this have something to do with PR-Investors writing whitepapers for a dev or something?

I always assumed that devs just to research and science ONLY.
Why would there need to be a protocol?
Are you talking about somekind of new ruleset that a dev has to follow who gets his orders and whitepapers written by someone who isn't a dev?

Please enlighten me.  

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Anyway, all those posts today were long overdue.

And I haven't even addressed most of the weird comments and FUD that many (including you) have posted.

I might address some of them later, but more important things first. (like sleep)