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- From: lyndon@unbc.edu (Lyndon Nerenberg)
- Newsgroups: can.uucp
- Subject: Re: can.domain
- Message-ID: <377@unbc.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 18:15:36 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.072148.27299@xenitec.on.ca> <376@unbc.edu> <BzorB5.MMC@wimsey.bc.ca>
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- Organization: University of Northern B.C.
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- > 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.
-
- I like this in principal, however there will have to be some mechanism
- in place to make a final yay/nay decision.
-
- What I would like to see is an elected group of people who make the final
- call on an application. The decision would consider input from can.domain
- discussions, the mailing lists, and whatever other information sources
- are considered appropriate.
-
- The first group (of five?) could be elected at the Net/93 conference
- this coming summer. (Where is it, BTW?) That gives us five months or
- so to work out the election details, etc.
-
- > 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.
-
- Even more reason to come up with an elected group.
-
- --lyndon
-