Re: The Price Of Admission is Acceptable.

[avc@netnamesusa.com (Antony Van Couvering)]

Jim,

I have to say that I'm in agreement about the barriers being too high in
CORE and existing at all in PAB.  

On the other hand, the PAB isn't communist, fascist, totalitarian, or
anything really except fledgling.  Of course it's always flattering to have
your best efforts equated with the big bad monsters of the 20th century.
Would that we merited it.

I'm a big fan of the Nominet model, I've watched it closely since its
inception and have put it forward as a model since our first meeting in
Geneva.  That doesn't mean it's perfect.  It also doesn't mean that one
size fits all.  Nominet just has to pay attention to UK concerns, it
doesn't have to attempt to be international.  That's a big important
difference.

I give a lot of credit to the current iPOC for their extremely hard work
and dedication in getting something going against considerable odds.

Maybe, Jim, it's hardly surprising that after so much effort, and so close
to a milestone in the effort, the iPOC is not going to say, "Oh, you're
right, let's rejigger the whole thing."  Your ideas have great merit, I
agree with many of them, I will personally work to lower the barriers to
entry in both CORE and PAB.  But, as you surely know, now is just not the
most propitious time.

Decisions have been made.  Things have been set in motion.  Deadlines loom.
 Let's keep good ideas coming without slagging off everyone who doesn't
agree to implement them at the drop of a hat.  

The process here is as important as the initial results.  That process, to
keep up with the changes that none of us can even envision now, has to be
evolutionary.  That requires a few things like persistence, diplomacy, and
knowing when to pick your moment.

Antony 


At 08:53 PM 9/13/97 +0100, Jim Dixon wrote:
>On Sat, 13 Sep 1997, Kent Crispin wrote:
>
>> > I love these reasoned replies.
>> 
>> It was appropriate to your "reasoned" comment, Jim.  You raise the
>> spectre of communist dictatorship; next I expect you will refer to
>> Hitler, and at that point, as we know, the thread is dead.  
>
>Oh, I referred to Hitler a few days ago. 
>