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It does seem like a code of conduct is being
discussed here.

My opinion is that laws and regulations are not
a solution in most cases. They work in a society
where we have courts and police. We have no such
functions here, and if we did, who would fulfil
those roles?

Some people revel in bureaucracy and making rules
and setting up structures. I understand the
appeal in that, and indeed it's usefulness. But
keep in mind that we have so few people involved
here that, in my opinion, it starts to look like
a farce when we discuss rules and regulations.

Many here wish to grow the organization, and
setting up a more rigid structure may be a good
prerequisite to that. However, in such a case we
would lose a lot of what some of us find good about
OpenNIC. Are we simply an alternative to ICANN, or
is there more going on here?

I personally like the freedom experienced by this
group, and becoming another ICANN would be the
opposite of what I would prefer to consider. Others
no doubt have an opposing opinion. I asked earlier
in this discussion, are we going to fork OpenNIC?
I honestly believe that this is the only solution
to the, seemingly forceful, ideas being presented
lately. I don't think forking is a viable solution
at this point, so the only conclusion that I can
come up with is to leave well enough alone. At
least for now.

Regards,
        Ole



On Wed, 8 Aug 2018 22:54:54 -0400
Rouben <rouben AT rouben.net> wrote:

> After trying to keep up with the recent threads and votes
> around what is, essentially, conduct, I kept thinking:
> why doesn’t OpenNIC have a code of conduct? IMO rather
> than introduce reactive policy proposals, wouldn’t it be
> best to have a code of conduct instead, and perhaps even
> a formal statement of purpose?
> 
> Here’s a few examples from high profile open source
> projects: https://www.ubuntu.com/community/code-of-conduct
> https://www.debian.org/code_of_conduct
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Code_of_conduct
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Council/Code_of_conduct
> 
> I rather like the Ubuntu one, because it is an example of
> an organization with a relatively mature governance
> structure.
> 
> The Arch code of conduct is probably the most practical
> with lots of details on a number of etiquette points,
> like quoting posts and bumping old threads.
> 
> Gentoo’s is an example of a “short and to the point”
> style, with pretty much two sections: acceptable and
> unacceptable behaviours.
> 
> Just thinking out loud here...
> 
> Rouben
>