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[Peter Green <peter AT greenpete.free>]

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Hi Jeff,

Yes, I basically agree with you and am grateful for your openness and
taking the time to write down your thoughts.

It is indeed a balance.

Peter

On 04/01/13 23:45, Jeff Taylor wrote:
> Sometimes executive decisions need to be made so that we can
> continue moving forward.  Consider this... When I discovered that
> the root zone hadn't had any real updates in nearly a year, I made
> my own executive decision -- I wrote a new script that updates the
> root an a regular basis.  This decision affects *everyone* involved
> with OpenNic.  Sure, I could have brought it to the mailing list, I
> could have called for discussion, which would have resulted in
> various conflicting opinions, debates about concepts that were
> completely unrealistic, and with any luck, a stalled vote some time
> later that wouldn't show anything except that everyone wanted more
> frequent updates.
> 
> I bypassed all that, took it upon myself to get the job done, and
> had a working script in place within a few days.  Sometimes there's
> no reason to debate an issue when its already clear that the
> majority either agree with the changes, or simply don't care.
> There are no significant differences in the license that will truly
> affect anyone or their content here, but if someone wishes to stand
> behind the principle of the SA license, we will accommodate them.
> Sometimes changes need to be made when there's no point bickering
> about the semantics of the change.
> 
> If you were to write your own root zone generator, there would
> likely be some people who decided to serve that zone from their T2
> instead of mine.  And if it were discovered that your zones were
> more reliable than mine, it wouldn't take long for everyone to stop
> using my script and start using yours.  THAT is a good model of the
> demographic nature of OpenNic.  Nobody dictates which tools you use
> to get the job done, we're just trying to provide the framework so
> everyone can work together.
> 
> On 01/03/2013 04:00 PM, Peter Green wrote:
>> I simply feel the process is unclear and arbitrary. I feel my
>> openness and attempted inclusion (regarding the latest website
>> revamp) is wasted when just one person can just make an executive
>> decision.
> 
> 
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