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From: Alexander Bartolich <alexander.bartolich@gmx.at

Subject: Moderator Vacancy Investigation: comp.protocols.dns.std

Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:49:04 EST

Message-ID: <hjg6t6$7ed$1@news.albasani.net>





              MODERATOR VACANCY INVESTIGATION (MVI)

              moderated group comp.protocols.dns.std



This is a formal Moderator Vacancy Investigation (MVI), begun because

moderated newsgroup comp.protocols.dns.std is not functioning,

and may have been abandoned by its moderator(s).



This investigation will attempt to verify the reasons for non-function,

and may result in the removal of the group or the selection and instal-

lation of a new moderator.  In practice, the Big-8 Management Board

considers the third alternative--changing the status of the group from

moderated to unmoderated--as likely to cause more harm than good.



RATIONALE:



Probe posts to this group resulted in bounces.



<comp-protocols-dns-std@webster.isc.org> (expanded from

    <comp-protocols-dns-std@isc.org>): host webster.isc.org[2001:4f8:1:d::12]

    said: 550 5.1.1 <comp-protocols-dns-std@webster.isc.org>: Recipient address

    rejected: User unknown in local recipient table (in reply to RCPT TO

    command)



NEWSGROUPS LINE:



comp.protocols.dns.std	DNS standards activities, including IETF. (Moderated)



DISTRIBUTION:



news.announce.newgroups

news.groups.proposals

comp.protocols.dns.std

comp.protocols.misc



CHARTER OF COMP.PROTOCOLS.DNS.STD



  Discussions of IETF and other DNS standards activities will take place

  here.  Internet drafts, comments and ruminations on internet drafts,

  official IETF working group announcements (related to DNS working

  groups such as DNSIND and DNSSEC) can be made here.  This newsgroup

  will be bidirectionally gatewayed to the <namedroppers@internic.net>

  mailing list.  Traffic crossing over from the newsgroup to the mailing

  list or vice versa will be moderated, as will all traffic on the

  newsgroup itself.  (The mailing list is unmoderated.)  Moderation is

  considered necessary to filter out SPAM and off-topic posts.  (See

  section entitled "CHARTER: all groups" for more information about

  moderation policy.)



  Gateway mailing list name: Name Droppers

  Submission address: namedroppers@internic.net

  Request address: namedroppers-request@internic.net

  On moderation: the primary moderation mechanism will be a robot which

  auto-approves posts if they do not appear to be SPAM and they are not

  cross-posted to other groups in the same hierarchy.  Articles which

  fail the robot's filters will be sent to a human (Paul Vixie) for

  handling.  Paul Vixie will approve any article which seems to be

  mostly on topic; he reserves the right to delete SPAM without

  notifying the sender, and the right to suggest to an author that her

  choice of newsgroups could profitably have been different, and the

  right to pass through errors from the news system such as "more than

  50% included text".  No article will be rejected on the basis of its

  flame content.  Cross posted articles will probably be rejected with

  an explaination to the author, since very few articles appropriate for

  any of these groups will be appropriate for any other group.  That

  decision will be made on a case by case basis, and the robot will be

  informed of newsgroup unions for which cross posting is acceptable so

  that human intervention won't be required in that case in the future.



  On naming: as a middle aged curmudgeon, your humble speaker feels it

  his duty to stamp out incorrect nomenclature such as "TCP/IP".  Most

  of the network traffic that carries DNS information is UDP, a peer of

  TCP in the great protocol stack in the sky.  Naming the original

  DNS-related newsgroup "comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains" was an error,

  one we propose to (a) not repeat in our selection of names for these

  new groups, and (b) repair by deleting/renaming the c.p.t-i.d group to

  "comp.protocols.dns.ops".  It may or may not be an error to call a

  group "comp.protocols.tcp-ip", and we are not making any proposals

  that that group be renamed.  It would be a huge and compound error to

  call our groups "comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains.bind" et al.



HISTORY OF THE GROUP:



comp.protocols.dns.std is a moderated newsgroup which passed its vote for

creation by 277:18 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 7 Sep 1996.



PROPONENT:



Alexander Bartolich <alexander.bartolich@gmx.at>



PROCEDURE:



Those who wish to comment on this moderator vacancy investigation should

subscribe to news.groups.proposals and participate in the relevant

threads in that newsgroup.  



To this end, the followup header of this MVI has been set to 

news.groups.proposals.



For more information on the MVI process, please see 



http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:mvi



CHANGE HISTORY:



2010-01-19	Probe post

2010-01-24	Moderator Vacancy Investigation

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