[21629] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Journal of Internet Disasters
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.D. Falk)
Tue Nov 17 14:44:13 1998
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 11:04:41 -0800
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@cp.net>
To: Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>,
Deborah Ann Smith <das@pollux.noc.digex.net>
Cc: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Mail-Followup-To: Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>,
Deborah Ann Smith <das@pollux.noc.digex.net>,
Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981117151529.00ae1990@shell2.bayarea.net>; from Dave Crocker on Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 03:18:03PM +0800
On 11/16/98, Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com> wrote:
> That does not mean no oversight. It merely means finding non-governmental
> methods of achieving the oversight. I suggest, for example, that a
> competent and careful effort of the type Sean is suggesting would go a
> long, long way towards helping things, by providing public and clear
> explanations of problems. Yes, it is possible that some ISPs would choose
> to ignore the public disclosure, but let's worry about that problem after
> give simple, public discourse a try. Such an approach has a good track on
> the Internet.
Furthermore...I'd be willing to bet that if the FCC or whoever
got a lot of complaints, they'd form an oversight committee.
Why not just form one ourselves, making sure that it's answerable
to the needs of the Internet community?
--
J.D. Falk <jdfalk@cp.net> "Nathan says hi."
Special Agent In Charge (Abuse Issues)
Critical Path, Inc.
