Re: DNSO worries

Michael Sondow (msondow@iciiu.org)
Sun, 10 Jan 1999 21:20:31 -0500


Roberto Gaetano a écrit:

> No, the participants list is *not* reaching *all* the participants. It's no
> longer reaching me, for instance.
> Please, avoid posting to my personal address. My personal address is for
> personal matters. I will receive DNSO matters through the open list
> discuss@dnso.org.

That may alright for you, Roberto, but there are from fifty to a hundred
other people to take into consideration. You have decided to use the discuss
list exclusively. But they may not have decided that. And some of them,
maybe most, may not be using the participants list either. We may
effectively be losing touch with the membership, which I for one consider
very bad.

> I doubt that there can be any reasonment in the world that can convince me
> that there is information that has to be addressed to the participants of
> Barcelona and/or Monterrey, but hidden to the others.

It's not a matter of information to be addressed. It's a question of two-way
communication between people who have already worked together. You are
suggesting that all consensus and voting on the DNSO.org application be done
by the participants of the discuss list rather than the participants present
in MTY and BCN. That is a pretty radical suggestion, and extremely
foolhardy, IMHO.

Would you dilute the force of the DNSO.org consensus application, by
removing its support from the participants, even before it has had a chance
to compete with the other proposals? I don't see that any other group has
done anything so foolish as that. The ORSC has written a proposal amongst
themselves, then posted it. That's what the DNSO.org has been doing, except
that our base is much larger and broader than theirs. Why would you want to
dismember the DNSO.org process, by ignoring the participants and diluting
those who remain in the discuss list?