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[Julian DeMarchi <julian AT jdcomputers.com.au>]

On 04/24/2014 03:32 PM, Martin C wrote:
> Hello Everybody,

Hey Martin,

TL;DR: Thanks Martin for everything. If you see issues with OpenNIC or
have improvements, get involved.

> After some careful thinking about OpenNIC's goals, the direction it seems 
> to be taking (or not taking, as the case may be), the lack of organisation 
> and 
> actual stuff happening, as well as the intent to centralise all domain and 
> user data, for a system that is supposed to thrive on decentralisation, I 
> have decided I must bow out.

You must first understand why Jeff is trying to do LDAP. Once you
understand this, the rest will fall in place. LDAP is basically a
bakcup. with my registry, I will not be using LDAP as my data store. I
will however be pushing the zones there to have the data backed up in
case I get hit by a truck.

Decentralisation is Jeff's goal. He has been the main pusher for this.


> I will be closing down .OZ after the 2 and a bit years of maintaining and 
> supporting it. If anyone wishes to continue with it, I can provide you with 
> a 
> simple database file (or even an SQL dump) containing member usernames, 
> their email address, their domain as well as the nameservers they used. 
> This 
> will include their MD5'ed password hash as well upon request, but it might 
> be easier to just reset them.

This is unfortunate. But I thank you for your contributions.

[...]

> I just can't see any progress happening and it all seems rather stagnant. 
> I'd hate for this project to turn into a non-productive exercise for all 
> concerned, but it just looks so much like it that I find it hard to 
> describe it any other way. Peter Green was right about that.

What kind of progress do you expect? I'm aiming to keep the systems
OpenNIC provide stable and trust worthy. We have been extremely
productive in my eyes. We have helped the people of censored countries
by-pass their government blocks to keep their freedoms on the big bad
internetz...

We are here to provide censorship free DNS and an alternative DNS system
to ICANN. Maybe your view on OpenNIC is different? Not sure what else
can be done?

> Yes Jeff, this is why I haven't updated the files. I am also tired of the 
> outdated information throughout the wiki, even other members here have 
> complained about the iptables stuff not working (which I could confirm), 
> the updater scripts being out of date, an immense feeling of Not Invented 
> Here 
> syndrome amongst many members with regards to software (so much wasted 
> duplication) and everyone seeming to have their own toys and not wanting to 
> play 
> with others.

Sorry if this sounds like a dig, but it is...

The purpose of a wiki is collabaration. If you or anyone else finds
outdated information, please, fix it! Don't come complaining to the
lists about outdated information when you have the power, like the rest
here reading, to fix it. If not, just ask and it will be given.

I'm getting tired of hearing complaints like this. I really don't know
what else can be done? you have a few members doing a lot of work and a
lot of others who just like to make noise. If you're not happy about
things, or see a way to change them for a better, get freakin involved.
There is an IRC room on irc.freenode.org #opennic for which every single
person is invited to join.

We are a community, so I encourge, no... I DARE you all to get involved
and make OpenNIC THE WAY YOU SEE IT!

--julian