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Re: [ifwp] Re: Preliminary report from Boston



Dave and all,

  We agree that closed mailing lists are a bad thing.  Tell that to the new
proposed DNSO group at www.dnso.org and I believe that the gTLD-MoU folks
had a few closed lists as well didn't they Dave?

Dave Crocker wrote:

> At 08:38 PM 11/16/98 -0500, Tony Rutkowski wrote:
> >It seems an appropriate time, as a result of discussions at
> >the Litigation BOF on Friday in Cambridge, to announce the
> >list <action@law.ifwp.org>
> >
> >To join, send a message to <list@law.ifwp.org> with
> >the text "join action" on the first line.
> >
> >This list is moderated and membership controlled.
>
> 1.  A closed list is antithetical to open Internet processes.  I submitted
> a subscription request some time ago and have not yet received a response.
> Please note that Tony has published no criteria for list membership, so
> that this appears to be entirely a matter of his personal whim.
>
> 2.  What agency of the IFWP authorized Tony's use of the IFWP domain name
> for this activity?  And when did the IFWP authorized a closed discussion group?
>
> A strong critic of the efforts by others to provide Internet services,
> needs to play according to normal Internet rules.  That does NOT include
> closed list and whimsical management.
>
> d/
>
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