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- From: sl@wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lynne)
- Subject: Re: can.domain
- Organization: Wimsey Information Services
- Distribution: can
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 00:13:52 GMT
- Message-ID: <BzorB5.MMC@wimsey.bc.ca>
- References: <1992Dec22.072148.27299@xenitec.on.ca> <376@unbc.edu> <1992Dec22.215021.27885@xenitec.on.ca>
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- In article <1992Dec22.215021.27885@xenitec.on.ca> eah@xenitec.on.ca (Ed Hew) writes:
- >In article <376@unbc.edu> lyndon@unbc.edu (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes:
- >>eah@xenitec.on.ca (Ed Hew) writes:
- >>
- >>> all within the committee who care to look.
- >>
- >>And that seems to be the crux of the problem, does it not?
-
- >Further, you'll recall that I've been asked to impliment a bi-
- >directionally gated mailing list. In part, this is to ensure
- >that those on the committee living on hosts without direct
- >access to news will have no excuse not to participate.
- >
- >>Perhaps the first posting to can.domain should be the current membership
- >>list of the .CA Namespace Cabal.
- >
- >I personally would like to see this information posted, and would
- >support such a request if it appears once can.domain is created.
- >As I'm not the keeper of that list, I'm not the one with authority
- >to release it, but I know that the party who does have that authority
- >will see the request if you post it to can.domain. I'll certainly
-
- That would be John Demco or demco@cs.ubc.ca.
-
- >I don't so much believe that the .CA Domain Registry Committee has
- >been "hiding", more than that there has been no vehicle to bring
- >the back-room discussions to the attention of the community and
- >the needs of the community to those in the back-rooms.
-
- My personal hope is that the domain space committee can be managed
- in the same way as IETF Working Groups. Participation open to anyone
- who is interested. (Perhaps limited to residents of Canada.) Decisions
- by consensus. There is no voting process. It is up to the chairman and
- participants to arrive at a solution that satifies all parties. This
- model seems to have produced many workable standards for the IETF.
- I don't see why it couldn't work here.
-
- >>Posting new domain registrations to can.domain is a nice publicity
- >>stunt,
- >
- >It's not meant to be any sort of a publicity stunt, but rather as
- >_part_ of the information I suggest we should all have readily available.
-
- Well that was my idea. What I'm trying to do is raise public awareness
- of both the .CA namespace and some of the controversies associated with
- the current "guidelines" for assigning domain addresses within it.
-
- >>gateway, but if we cannot the people making the decisions to PARTICIPATE
- >>in useful discussions, then this whole exercise is a waste of bandwidth.
-
- What we need to do is convince the powers to be that public discussion and
- consensus is the proper way to do things. This is a good start I think.
-
- >>I will support the creation of can.domain if and *only* if they agree
- >>(in this forum) to maintain an ongoing dialog with their "customer base"
- >>via the can.domain group and any and all other electronic means.
-
- I think that is a valid request at this point. They should be interested
- enough to maintain a dialog.
-
- >by the committee when you post it in can.domain, but without can.domain
- >(or an equivalent non-existent vehicle) you have absolutely no chance
- >of being heard, other than by indirect representation through myself
-
- Well we could send email directly to the domain discussion mailing list.
- But my understanding is that membership is limited to "by invitation" so
- you might not see any resulting dialog. Having can.domain at least gives
- us a public forum.
-
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