[ga] Positions so far on mailing list policy

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>]

OK, that's the first day.

I counted 15 respondents to the policy document; I interpreted 10 as "in 
favour of something roughly like this", 3 against (2 because they don't 
think anything should be blocked, and 1 - Baptista - because he wants 
Robert's Rules), and 2 didn't seem to give an opinion yet.

A number of issues have been raised, including:

- Whether the possibility of asking for identification belongs here
- Whether posting by "handle" rather than by name should be permitted
- Whether the "who" command should be enabled
- Whether the "unfiltered" list should be archived at the DNSO site
- Whether that archive, if made, should be public
- Who (the chair, the SAA or the GA) should decide to take action against
   an offender.

I've summarized the positions I've been able to interpret in the attached 
table (HTML format), and also put it on the Web at 
http://www.alvestrand.no/icann/MLPositions.html

Of course, this is NOT a vote - but if I have misrepresented someone's 
position, or someone wants to fill in the empty places in the table, please 
tell me ASAP!

This will be input to a revision of the policy document that I hope to do 
before the weekend; I hope we can do an opinion poll on that revision to 
see if it's possible to say that the GA list membership recommends its 
adoption.

                   Harald

Title: ML positions

Sheet1

Positions on mailing list policy
Name	Must have rules	These rules	Identification	Allow handles	enable WHO	Archive unfiltered	Publish unfiltered	Who decides
Harald Alvestrand	Yes	Yes	?		No	Yes	No	SAA
William Walsh	Yes	Yes	Yes
Ken Stubbs	Yes	Yes	Yes?
Richard Lindsay	Yes	Yes
David Farrar	Yes	Yes
Joop Ternstra	Yes	Yes	Yes					Chair
Darrel Greenwood	Yes	Yes			No
Karl Auerbach	No	No	(Yes)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	GA
Michael Froomkin	Yes	Yes	No			Yes	Yes	SAA
Joe Kelsey	Yes	Yes				Don't care	No
Roberto Gaetano	Yes	Yes			No	Yes	No
Bret A. Fausett					Yes
Jeff Williams					Yes
Joe Baptista	Yes	No
Randy Canis	Yes	No	No	Yes

Last Updated on 13.01.00
By Harald Tveit Alvestrand



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