Re: [agenda] Agenda suggestion: Read-only list access

[Michael Schneider <sastre@anwalt.de>]

Dear former colleagues,

having been a NC member myself, I second Alexander Svensson's motion. I'd 
love to continue reading the list - this is, however, rather difficult to 
me since I tend to work through my backlog while I'm travelling (without 
web access).

Best regards,
Michael Schneider

At 10:47 27.08.01 +0200, Alexander Svensson wrote:

>Dear NC Intake Committee,
>
>I would like to suggest to put the following item
>on the next Names Council meeting agenda available:
>
>  NC mailing list read-only access for non-members
>
>Rationale:
>Some very interesting discussions are taking place
>on the Names Council list, but even though they
>are public, the technical access is somewhat
>complicated: The discussions are only available
>via the Web archive, which makes it very hard to
>follow the discussions on a regular basis.
>
>However, it would be possible to provide read-only
>access to the NC list: As before, only certain
>persons (Names Council members, DNSO Secretariat,
>ICANN Staff and Board, General Assembly Chair and
>Alternate Chair, Names Council Meetings' Scribe,
>NC Working Group's Co-Chairs) are allowed to *post*
>on the list, but others may *receive* the postings by
>mail.
>
>Something similar is done for the General Assembly
>mailing list: People may subscribe to ga-monitor@dnso.org
>to receive postings without becoming a GA member, e.g.
>for automatic archiving.
>
>According to Elisabeth Porteneuve, setting up such an
>option -- comparable to a listen-in port on a
>teleconference -- is technically feasible; according
>to Vany Martinez, it is very easy to set up.
>I don't see any particular reason to oppose such
>read-only access; it should be an agenda item taking
>up little of the NC's time.
>
>However, it would make it much easier to follow the issues
>on the NC agenda and enable additional transparency!
>
>Thanks and best regards,
>/// Alexander