Have been fighting with some RWD "expert" on Wikipedia of late. At the time of this writing, my edits to the related article are still visible.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_Web_Design
RWD is just a buzzword. According to the article (and a fairly recent book it seems), it incorporates these techniques:
- Use EM units to size text (and containers of text of course).
- Use media queries
- Let the browser scale images (by using em's instead of pixels)