*Can we start off by implementing the least contested features now, and derive consensus on others later? How does that sound?* Then we can keep things moving along with changes, rather than stagnate waiting for consensus to form on too many points with issues. Trying to get consensus on 1 issue is easier than 10 issues all at once, and getting consensus to move forward on 11 points that everyone agrees on is easier than thinking all 13 points need to be agreed upon together or else none of them can pass.

According to @pfunk's list from @liondani's [post](https://steemit.com/steem/@liondani/transparency-witnesses-opinions-on-hard-fork-17-futures), we have the following about where the top 19 witnesses stand on these issues:

1- Remove Posting Rate Limit
- NONE AGAINST

2- The comment depth limit has been increased to 255.
- NONE AGAINST

3- Comments can now be permanently edited.
- NONE AGAINST

4- Comments are now paid out independent of their discussion.
- NONE AGAINST

5- All comments are paid out 7 days after creation and there is no longer a second payout window
5a- [proposed] Add meaningful abuse-mitigation to new 7-day window. Steem issue #900
https://github.com/steemit/steem/issues/900

6- There is now a comment reward fund separate from posts.

7- All payouts now look at the prior 30 days of payouts to determine the share of the reward rather than the current pending rshares
- NONE AGAINST

8- Reward Balance
- NONE AGAINST

9- Comment Reward Beneficiaries
- NONE AGAINST

10- Delegated Steem Power
- NONE AGAINST

11- Accounts can be created with a smaller fee and an initial Steem Power delegation.
- NONE AGAINST

12- PoW is being removed.
- ONE AGAINST

13- NTP is disabled by default
- NONE AGAINST

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I submit that 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13 can all be implemented, with needing to convince @liondani to accept no more PoW for #12.

*Easy right?* We move forward on 85% of the changes. And not move forward on two of them (5, 6).

*Can't this be done instead?*

*What does everyone think?*

*Do we remove the 2 points of contention, and pass the rest, and see how that goes?*

*Do we scrap the whole HF17?*

*What's going on?* LOL

***Which fork in the road are we taking?***

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