Re: Re: [ga] So far, 28 poll answers logged

["Roberto Gaetano" <roberto.gaetano@voila.fr>]

Brad,

I completely agree with your approach of having smaller task-oriented 
lists.
I tried already to express the fact that I am uncomfortable with one 
single all-inclusive list, good for discussion on any topic as well as 
for voting.

As far as hosting the lists somewhere else, I have personally no problem
 in following this model, pretty much IETF-like, should the DNSO 
resources be insufficient to manage the load.
This, of course, would have the advantage of the "distribution", but the
 drawback of the lack of uniqueness of the source of information, namely
 the archives at DNSO.org.
I also have the impression that there is much sensitivity about the 
"official record" problem.
Would a list hosted (and archived) somewhere else be acceptable to you? 
Considering the (past, I hope) problems with forging, would people trust
 a complete list management somewhere else, and with which criteria?

Open for brainstorming.

Regards
Roberto



>The reason the WGs have their own lists can be summed up by the
>realization that a small room can hold only so many people. It has a
>capacity. Just like an ethernet, It will only support a certain amount 
of
>bandwidth and then come to a halt due to collisions. A token ring will
>slowly degrade because of it's orderly process.
>
>A mail list can only support so much bandwidth in the form of 
cacophany. I
>use the term cacophany not to merely include disruptive behaviour, but 
the
>realization that a forum can contain only so much traffic before the
>insignificant parts for any one person become too much to wade through 
in
>order to get to their "particular substance".
>
>That is why we typically delegate tasks out to various lists, like -
>discuss, and tech, and legal, and devel. Atty's would have to wade 
through
>miles of change logs and code if a devel list were merged with a legal
>list.
>
>The problem here, is one of structure, and appropriate divestiture of 
the
>topics. It's really comical actually. Here we stand. All in one room,
>talking at the same time about different things.
>
>Might I respectfully suggest of our Chair that he consider breaking us 
out
>into committees by task or topic. Mr. Gaetano is the one person who can

>bring that order. Our lists don't have to be hosted by DSNO.org Several
 of
>us here would be more than happy to provide the facilities merely by 
being
>asked.
>
>Committees bring focus to a central point. Remember in the eighties 
when
>we started thinking in terms of distributed computing? many of us in 
that
>ivory tower called the "Machine Room" wanted no part of it. PCs forced 
a
>distrubuted environment, but the big fear was disruption and mass
>confusion.
>
>Most people didn't figure that the PC would just reinforce the notion 
of
>centralization of databases and files.
>
>In other words, How could someone possibly (no sarcasm please) disrupt 
20
>mailing lists, with the point people of those lists coordination on a
>central committee (probably it's own list apart from this one) where 
the
>work hashed out would come to fruition.
>
>Not only is ICANN banking on the assumption that we won't or can't do
>that, but that is also the very model they have adopted to accomplish
>their tasks - and it has only strengthened them.
>
>Or, we could just keep shouting out our ideas right here in any order 
that
>suits us.
>
>
>On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Michael Sondow wrote:
>
>> Joop Teernstra wrote:
>> > 
>> > Those interested in the full truth of what happened in the first 
Steering
>> > Committee of the IDNO, the trigger event, provided by Joe Baptista,
 the
>> > attempted capture of the SC by William Walsh and "Bradley  
Thornton" before
>> > an agreed structure was in place and their vendetta of slander when
 the
>> > majority refused to roll over, can find it all in the idno 
archives.
>> > http://list.idno.org/archives
>> > 
>> > Just as ICANN can learn lessons for its General Membership 
structure from
>> > what is happening here, history of what happened in the IDNO  is 
already
>> > repeating itself.
>> 
>> The lesson to be learned here, I think, Joop, is that mailing lists
>> are not, after all, a useful way of accomplishing good things. There
>> will always be vengeful, unhappy people like Walsh and agents
>> provocateurs like Crispin and Crocker to disrupt them.
>> 
>> Three or four people of like mind who trust each other can
>> accomplish more, by telephone, than this rag-tag of little Caesars
>> and neurotic sociopaths. That is what the ICANN Board realizes, and
>> why they have so far beaten us.
>> 
>> 
>> ============================================================
>> Michael Sondow           I.C.I.I.U.     http://www.iciiu.org
>> Tel. (718)846-7482                        Fax: (603)754-8927
>> ============================================================
>> 
>
>--Bradley D. Thornton MCSE; MCT.--  , bootstrap  of
>the Cyberspace Association,
>the constituency for Individual Domain Name Owners
>http://www.idno.org  (or direct:) 
>http://www.tallship.net/idno
>
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