From: Andy Linton
I'd have gone for 'half of the net community' if I were saying it. (:-)
I'm curious as to why the body that administers the 'nz' namespace should be perceived as a controversial choice. I'm not suggesting that they run anything, merely act as arbitrators in the event of dispute. At least each of the members of this list and/or their employers have the option of joining ISOCNZ and voting in a council to formulate policy. I'd throw down the gauntlet to the members of this list to join and change ISCONZ if they don't like how it's run.
If ISOCNZ isn't a suitable candidate then can we hear some other suggestions.
I'd say the University of Waikato aren't an impartial observer in this and the ISPs have no say in who would make up the members of an arbitration panel from that source.
Of course, we could form YANONZ (Yet Another Networking Organisation in NZ) and waste even more time trying to raise funds and have meetings.
I'd agree with using ISOCNZ for this sort of thing. I think that is what it is there for. The only issue I would have with using ISOCNZ is the technical knowledge that this sort of role might require. I'm not sure that this exists in ISOCNZ at this point in time although I may be completely wrong. Perhaps what we need is something like ISOCNZ to get everyone working together. Maybe it's time we seriously build a tighter community between everyone, which hasn't existed in the past. Just don't tell the commerce commision I said that cause I doubt they would understand :) I don't want to see another networking group formed. I am sure everyone is aware of the amount of bull**** which comes from trying to do that sort of thing. Setting up committees... the continual arguments across emails... its not worth it. And everyone will end up doing their own thing because they will not have time for the politics. I think this has been shown time and time again to almost everyone on this list, at some time in their internet career. -Rowan --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog