Re: PAB endorsement of IANA proposals

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Mon, Aug 31, 1998 at 04:36:28PM +0000, Javier SOLA wrote:
> Michael,
> 
> Please note that I am responding ONLY to the PAB list. I would like this
> track to stay in here. The interesting thing of closed lists is that I can
> express my opinions to the people in the list without having to worry about
> anybody else reading them. The style of my writing if for this list and for
> no other, in spite of your opinion of where it belongs.

[...]
> >
> >I am well aware of the fact that the PAB is a closed list. You can rest
> >assured that I hesitated a long time before forwarding your posting to the
> >IFWP-SC. Nevertheless I think that the SC has a right to know what
> >"precisely your opinion" is, particularly since you publicise assumptions
> >which, in my opinion, almost make fair discussion impossible. 
> 

Javier, both you and Michael are mistaken about the PAB list.  Six
months ago we voted to open the PAB list, in the form of a public
archive, and an archive has been publically available since that time.  
It is true that the list is closed in the sense that non-subscribers 
may not post, but comments are readable by the general public.

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