RE: [ga] Proposal: WWW / slashdot

[Jean-Michel Becar <Jean-Michel.Becar@etsi.fr>]

Harald, Michael,

But the way the At Large members is registered via this Web Interface could
be an example for the GA membership. 
But the way the proof of identity is done (by sending a postal mail to the
pysical address with a PIN code to be used for accessing to the web site)
would cost too much for the GA. 
So why not to set up a web site where people can registrer themselves and
for the proof of identity and interest in the GA DNSO, they should provide a
domain name that can be verified with a whois request if the domain name
holder is the same as the member.

Just my 2 cts.

Jean-Michel Becar


-----Original Message-----
From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand [mailto:Harald@Alvestrand.no]
Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2000 8:18 PM
To: Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law; ga@dnso.org
Subject: Re: [ga] Proposal: WWW / slashdot


At 13:18 27.02.00 -0500, Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law wrote:
>I am told that the new membership system for ICANN relies in part on a WWW
>interface, and that is how "members" activate and manage their membership
>accounts.  If it is in fact the case that the taboo against WWW interfaces
>has been abandoned, I propose that moderation on this list be replaced
>with a web-based conversation based on the slashdot engine.  (The
>rationale had been that email was more democratic, since people with poor
>connectivity had difficulty using the web; I gather that technological
>progress and passage of several weeks since this argument was last floated
>has reduced this problem...)

I disagree with the ICANN decision to start off the At-Large using a Web 
interface; I think the interface they chose penalizes anyone with a long 
roundtrip time from California, and denies me easy access to functions like 
"search for the message that caused Michael to get so mad at me", which my 
own email system provides with reasonable ease.
And I'm a regular slashdot reader too, so it's not because I don't know 
that alternative.
The question of what communications media ICANN will run on behalf of the 
At-Large community is on the agenda for Cairo.

That said, it would be fun to watch someone trying to run a Slashdot engine 
for the GA. First question: Who decides what stories to post?

                        Harald



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Harald Tveit Alvestrand, EDB Maxware, Norway
Harald.Alvestrand@edb.maxware.no

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