[6640] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Policies affecting the Internet as a whole - Hitting where it hurts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Sat Dec 28 00:48:15 1996
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 21:38:46 -0800 (PST)
From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.94.961227221734.26053A-100000@universe.digex.net>
On Fri, 27 Dec 1996, jenni baier wrote:
> How about creating some organization for which the pre-requisite of
> membership would be adherence to a charter which outlined some standards
> and policies for dealing with other ISPs when giving complaints and
> standards for dealing with complaints received? The membership list could
> be published and serve as a list of providers worth using, rather than
> publishing a "bad" list (which, it has already been shown, is
> problematic).
>
> I'd be willing to put some time and effort into making something like this
> work...
Have a look at http://www.ispc.org
This is still a young organization but some sort of program like you are
suggesting is on the to-do list there, awaiting only demand and
participation of others to make it happen.
Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting
Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-604-546-3049
http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com
