Re: [Nanog-futures] Membership, was Transition update

2010-06-11 Thread Daniel Golding
John, Everything up there is a placeholder - there are no real bylaws yet. I think you are putting the cart before the horse. I'm hoping that the previous charter-editor committee steps up and helps put together a new set of bylaws, congruent (but not identical) to the existing charter. I know

Re: [Nanog-futures] Membership, was Transition update

2010-06-11 Thread Hank Kilmer
Dan, According to the website, the board officially ratified the bylaws. So there are real bylaws. The issue here is that there is a great deal of work setting up a 501c3 organization to run NANOG and there are goals that wish to be met. All this means is that there are changes attempting to

Re: [Nanog-futures] Membership, was Transition update

2010-06-11 Thread Dorian Kim
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 09:55:13AM -0600, Sean Figgins wrote: I believe that paid membership is the only way to actually have a real, valid membership. Otherwise, it is just a crap shoot. The way it currently is, we could have members that have no interest in NANOG as a organization.

Re: [Nanog-futures] Membership, was Transition update

2010-06-11 Thread kris foster
On Jun 11, 2010, at 9:05 AM, Dorian Kim wrote: On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 09:55:13AM -0600, Sean Figgins wrote: I believe that paid membership is the only way to actually have a real, valid membership. Otherwise, it is just a crap shoot. The way it currently is, we could have members that

Re: [Nanog-futures] Membership, was Transition update

2010-06-11 Thread Martin Hannigan
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Sean Figgins s...@labrats.us wrote: [ clip ] I believe that paid membership is the only way to actually have a real, valid membership. Otherwise, it is just a crap shoot. The way it currently is, we could have members that have no interest in NANOG as a

Re: [Nanog-futures] Membership, was Transition update

2010-06-11 Thread Chris Caputo
On Fri, 11 Jun 2010, Sean Figgins wrote: Correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't 501c status take about 18 months to get? One data point: the SIX's 501(c)(6) application was mailed on 7/3/2008 and was approved by the IRS on 9/11/2008, so it took just a little over 2 months. A 501(c)(3) may

Re: [Nanog-futures] Membership, was Transition update

2010-06-11 Thread Jay Hennigan
On 6/11/10 10:28 AM, Martin Hannigan wrote: Who is going to pay to join a mailing list? If the membership fee were relatively low and a lifetime or long-term (like five year) it could be relatively painless. Membership would give voting rights as well as the mailing list. Say $50 lifetime

Re: [Nanog-futures] Membership, was Transition update

2010-06-11 Thread Shrdlu
Martin Hannigan wrote: On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Sean Figgins s...@labrats.us mailto:s...@labrats.us wrote: [ clip ] I believe that paid membership is the only way to actually have a real, valid membership. Otherwise, it is just a crap shoot. The way it currently

Re: [Nanog-futures] Membership, and Transition comment

2010-06-11 Thread Andy Davidson
On 11 Jun 2010, at 16:55, Sean Figgins wrote: I believe that paid membership is the only way to actually have a real, valid membership. I agree. Make sure non North Americans can join too, please. However, I still maintain that, although I do support independence in principal, today's

Re: [Nanog-futures] Membership, was Transition update

2010-06-11 Thread Sean Figgins
kris foster wrote: If Dorian (and Sean) are not talking about governance, then I agree. The problem on the community's plate right now is governance, and discussion of membership in NewNOG, Inc. needs to happen. Um... I was talking about membership as a way to determine who is interested

Re: [Nanog-futures] Membership, was Transition update

2010-06-11 Thread Randy Bush
Who is going to pay to join a mailing list? if i understand the social contract and the business plan, i am happy to pay for foux-nog membership. i pay acm membership, i get some acm publications, and i then pay to go to acm meetings. nothing new here. randy

Re: [Nanog-futures] Membership, was Transition update

2010-06-11 Thread Steve Gibbard
I went looking through old e-mails to see if I could figure out where the current membership system came from. The earliest e-mail I could find outlining it was this: Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 19:12:26 -0500 From: Daniel Golding dgold...@burtongroup.com To: Stephen J. Wilcox

Re: [Nanog-futures] Membership, was Transition update

2010-06-11 Thread Daniel Golding
Is this when I'm supposed to admit that Wilcox was right and I was wrong? How much is Wilcox paying you, Gibbard?! No! Ok, I admit it - Steve Wilcox was right and I was wrong :) Daniel Golding On Jun 11, 2010, at 5:59 PM, Steve Gibbard s...@gibbard.org wrote: I went looking through

Re: [Nanog-futures] Membership, was Transition update

2010-06-11 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010, Adrian Chadd wrote: Hypothetically speaking, if I were currently engaged in this business, I'd pay. Both for the ability to ask questions and the ability to be asked questions by a sensible group of people with similar goals (ie, non-trolling) in mind[1]. And to follow

Weekly Routing Table Report

2010-06-11 Thread Routing Analysis Role Account
This is an automated weekly mailing describing the state of the Internet Routing Table as seen from APNIC's router in Japan. Daily listings are sent to bgp-st...@lists.apnic.net For historical data, please see http://thyme.apnic.net. If you have any comments please contact Philip Smith

Verizon OC12 outage in Dallas, TX

2010-06-11 Thread Tim Connolly
I don't know whether this is bigger or smaller, but Savvis seems to suggest there are 11 other DS3's involved in an outage that took us out around 11am. Anyone else have details? Verizon supposedly dispatched a tech to the Bryan St. pop.

Re: Upcoming Improvements to ARIN's Directory Service

2010-06-11 Thread Mark Kosters
Hi ARIN is making significant improvements to our systems and services. ARIN encourages the community to look for upcoming features as details are available at: https://www.arin.net/features. I would like to clear up the confusion about the changes to access to Bulk Whois that have been

Now Available: Whois-RWS Differences Documentation

2010-06-11 Thread Mark Kosters
Hi FYI - this was posted a few minutes ago on arin-announce and may be of interest to NANOG as well. Regards, Mark - Forwarded message from Member Services i...@arin.net - From: Member Services i...@arin.net Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:30:40 -0400 To: arin-annou...@arin.net

BGP Update Report

2010-06-11 Thread cidr-report
BGP Update Report Interval: 03-Jun-10 -to- 10-Jun-10 (7 days) Observation Point: BGP Peering with AS131072 TOP 20 Unstable Origin AS Rank ASNUpds % Upds/PfxAS-Name 1 - AS30890 83244 6.6% 192.2 -- EVOLVA Evolva Telecom s.r.l. 2 - AS713257977

The Cidr Report

2010-06-11 Thread cidr-report
This report has been generated at Fri Jun 11 21:11:34 2010 AEST. The report analyses the BGP Routing Table of AS2.0 router and generates a report on aggregation potential within the table. Check http://www.cidr-report.org for a current version of this report. Recent Table History Date