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[Martin C <martin AT mchomenet.com>]

> 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?
I'm not seeing any progress where network administrators are actively 
contacted to use OpenNIC. Larger ISPs need to be reached out too for they 
have 
access to the bandwidth we (surely) are seeking.

> The purpose of a wiki is collabaration. If you or anyone else finds
> outdated information, please, fix it!
That point is only made when we _know_ something is oudated. I for one did 
not know something was outdated until informed via email. Everyone else would 
assume the information was good, I suspect. Where do we find out about 
updated information? I figured the list was the ideal place.

> lists about outdated information when you have the power, like the rest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 sure the webmaster group need to be informed of information changing, 
before they can publish the new data.

> There is an IRC room on irc.freenode.org #opennic for which every single
> person is invited to join.
I'm not an IRC guy. I prefer email lists and forums for communication. 
Perhaps summaries of decisions and plan could be published here by someone 
once 
there is a consensus of the information. That way, everyone is kept informed, 
rather than needing to stick to one person's or one group's prefered 
method of communication.

> We are a community, so I encourge, no... I DARE you all to get involved
> and make OpenNIC THE WAY YOU SEE IT!
I already asked last week what people were hoping to achieve here, and I got 
very little feedback. Quinn Wood replied with something very telling, so 
when noone rebuted it, I had the impression that it was generally agreed upon 
to be a good response. However, his response of a _probable_ goal for 
OpenNIC is not one I agreed with, once again no-one denied it or corrected 
him, so I left it at that.

I guess I wanted OpenNIC to sort of take on ICANN, offer that Great 
Alternative (TM), be the friendly, understanding, "for the people" grassroots 
effort 
that ICANN isn't and possibly could never be and offer a real challenge to 
them. There was some retaliation sure (DDoS for instance), so we responded 
with... whitelists. I never agreed with that idea and saw it as a form of 
"closing up" of OpenNIC.

I can only hope that there is a sense of direction within the core group for 
where you want to go. If there is, we surely don't know about it here.

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Martin C.
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