Round-robin (document)

A Round Robin, English round-robin, is a supplication and appeal, also called the petition that has been signed by their authors and supporters around in a circle so that they all appear to be equal and a ranking among them can not be identified, which would have betrayed the main initiators disparagingly known as ringleaders in the matter. This custom dates back to 17th century France, in which such petitions to the king and government for the parties at that time were very dangerous and could be paid by them with the loss of freedom and even of life.

As the first to French government officials, who probably feared more to difficulties in her career as her head here will be so moved by it. Among its inputs, instead of signing their names, any bands anbrachten around in a circle This type of signature is in French ruban ( literally translated to tape, or loop around ) rond called, from then in the Anglo -Saxon world, probably. Due to the French sound in the oral transmission was round robin

The writing of a Round Robin was particularly common among English crews. In the English Navy, the Royal Navy, he is for the first time around 1730 around documentary evidence. But the Round Robin among seafarers in the Merchant Navy was also known worldwide. In his narrative Omoo the American writer Herman Melville has described the production of a Round Robin on board a sailing ship in the South Seas in detail.