On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 4:50 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://www.fugawi.net/~hannigan/nanog-mlcp1-1.pdf > > > > Please reply here or privately. > > Law Enforcement and DMCA Designated Agent > NANOG Mailing List Committee > c/o Merit Network, Inc. > 1000 Oakbrook Drive > Suite 200 > Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104-6794 > Telephone: (734)764-9430 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > This is just plain weird. Is this some kind of legal requirement in the > USA? Has anyone ever posted any copyrighted material to the NANOG list?
Probably. > Given the short size of email messages, wouldn't any copyrighted > material be considered to be "fair use" quotations? I'm not a lawyer so I don't know. It's in there for operational use. I was using examples so I kept it. It may not be needed. > It wouldn't hurt to clarify the AUP with specific examples but the added > text in this document is wishy washy and detracts from the short punchy > nature of the AUP itself. What specifically is wishy washy? > > On the other hand, a statement like: > No Differentiation > The MLC will consider all policies equal. > isn't punchy at all. It's just meaningless and I wonder why it is in the > MLC processes. Historically, there was a belief that some AUP items were more important than others and it had been codified in other documents. > For that matter, given that this is an MLC operational procedure > document, why is it repeating the AUP at all? It doesn't have to. It's there are a reference and I tried to make the rationale give it some text so that there is a common understanding of why an item may exist to make support decisions more consistent. _______________________________________________ Nanog-futures mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog-futures
