[92431] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Removal of my name
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.)
Wed Sep 20 16:33:10 2006
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:16:17 -0500
From: "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
Cc: nanog-futures@merit.net, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4511824C.4060801@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Don Welch, Merit Network wrote:
> This issue is unique and does not represent a blanket policy. Any
> request to modify the archive is a serious issue that requires
> consultation with the Steering Committee and must be balanced against
> the loss of archive integrity.
Right here is the heart of the matter. This is a unique issue.
Attempts to set policies to cover unique issues _will_ result in bad
policies.
Policies should be set to cover the general cases. Management
prerogative (which should be bounded by policy) will best deal with the
unique issues.
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