RE: [ga] iCANN board has to rule the way the ICANN Forums will work.

["Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

Open is one thing, knowing that the persons we are dealing with are truely
those persons, is another. It is NOT, and can never be, censorship to
require strict authentication. Even anonymity can be accomodated, as long as
the list-owner knows that the person is a legal entity and they are posting
under a single user name and can be prohibited from posing as someone else.
Personally, I don't care if someone posts as "The man from Mars" as long as
I have a means to KNOW that every post is truely from them and not spoofed
by someone else.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ga@dnso.org [mailto:owner-ga@dnso.org]On Behalf Of Javier
> Rodriguez
> Sent: Friday, November 12, 1999 7:38 AM
> To: ga@dnso.org
> Subject: [ga] iCANN board has to rule the way the ICANN Forums will
> work.
>
>
> Dear fellows in the GA list,
>
> We can call any list "an open" list.  Any degree of filtering
> in an "open" list is
> always seen as a censorship.  The only rule to avoid this is
> "there is no censorship".
> Or we are an open list or we are not an open list.
>
> I would love to see a formal position of the ICANN Board
> about what is allowed
> and what is not allowed, and how to put someone out of the
> lists and so on.  Without
> explicit process NOBODY has gurantee that now or in the
> future there will be
> someone who dont like our hummble color or our Harvard
> degree, somewhere in
> the future we could be the "point of attack" from some
> people... whithout explicit
> rules in how to ban or how to accept people in the lists and
> other forums we left the
> deccision to one person, or a bunch of people... and people
> is prone (sp!) to do
> errors...  I will wait patiently until the ICANN Board finds
> the time to rule this things.
>
> My personal point of view is that in terms of lists, when a
> list is open to anyone who
> wants to suscribe then YOU KNOW what kind of noise and what
> kind of list it will
> be.  It happens ALL the time, in ALL the open lists that I
> have seen... the accusations
> of Censorship are "bread of each day" in all open lists... so
> it is important that this
> iCANN LIST will be ruled against any kind of censorship.
> Thats the only way to
> preserve the integrity of the process.  The best rule would
> be "there is no rules".
> Any other rule will be used against the process and will be a
> damage to the openness
> and transparency of the process.
>
> Regards,
>
> Javier
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> Javier Rodriguez                     jrl@mail.lima.net.pe
> AXISNET                                    VicePresident
> Peruvian Association of Internet Users and ISPs
> Other duties: ECOMLAC      ISOC -PERU      IPCE
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