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- Path: sparky!uunet!utcsri!cs.ubc.ca!unbc.edu!lyndon
- From: lyndon@unbc.edu (Lyndon Nerenberg)
- Newsgroups: can.domain
- Subject: Re: can.domain
- Message-ID: <381@unbc.edu>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 00:37:49 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.072148.27299@xenitec.on.ca> <376@unbc.edu> <Bzy58H.Fux@uunet.ca>
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- smd@uunet.ca (Sean Doran) writes:
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- > Whether this group should or should not be elected, and should or
- > should not represent organizations like CA*Net, NetNorth and DRENet,
- > or should involve the people who run the primary and secondary
- > nameservers for the CA Domain, is something that is probably very
- > moot. I think the important qualifications, though, are visibility,
- > responsibility and professionalism.
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- > I'm not sure that people elected at a conference will be particularly
- > professional and non-political. I'm almost certain that further
- > politicizing the CA domain will slow the applications process to the
- > point of near uselessness.
-
- Are you saying that the Net/XX conference attendees are not professional?
- Hmmm ... did you attend last year? After making such a statement will
- you attend *this* year? :-)
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- Given the highly political nature of the *current* .ca old boys club,
- how could an openly elected group be any *worse* ???
-
- > The current committee and system, with a bit of Glasnost (e.g., public
- > discussion about difficult issues like the namespace rules) and
- > a bunch of pragmatism, should do what needs to be done quite effectively.
-
- No. If we're going to start clean we have to start clean. Off with their
- heads and let's start over from scratch.
-