RE: [ga] just what work is the GA supposed to be doing?

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

Hello Roberto,

> From: owner-ga@dnso.org [mailto:owner-ga@dnso.org]On Behalf Of Roberto
> Gaetano
> Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2000 10:51 AM

> Rick Wesson wrote:
> >Could the chair please define the current scope of work for the GA? we
> >seeme to be idle.

> My personal shopping list follows.
>
> - Are we going to have a physical meeting in Cairo, or not?

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Regardless of whatever else transpires, for personal security reasons, I
will not travel to Cairo, or anywhere else considered "politically active".
I've spent my time getting shot at and I don't like it. BTW, just because
one is paranoid, doesn't mean that there are no evil persons (terrorists).

> - How are we going to proceed for the Individual Domain Name holders
> constituency? There has been some work under the Chairmanship of Nii,
> and we should follow up on that, IMHO.

Where is the information on this?

> And I am sure that others can participate to the brainstorming, and add
> ideas. But I tend to doubt that we can have real participationm and
> therefore real progress, until we don't solve the current major problem,
>  the noise level.

There is yet another issue being masked by the noise-level, scalability of
the DNSO lists. Basically, they aren't. The noise-level problem exacerbates
this and both must be solved. I sent you some quantification of this case,
in private email.

1) The noise-level problem falls under "managability" issues with the DNSO
lists.
2) Some form of registration/authentication MUST be deployed.
3) Mailer-Lists are inferior to INN discussion groups, for large audiences.