Re: [Nanog-futures] Admission for Committee Members

2011-10-09 Thread Joe Provo
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:00:35AM -0700, Steve Gibbard wrote: [snip] Here's my problem with this line of reasoning: We've got a serious volunteer shortage. In our upcoming board election, we have four candidates for four open seats. As one of those candidates, I'd like to think that this

Re: [Nanog-futures] Admission for Committee Members

2011-09-01 Thread Joe Provo
On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 07:56:20PM -0400, Dorian Kim wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 11:30:49AM -0400, David Temkin wrote: All, I would like to propose an amendment to the bylaws for the coming election cycle. The various committees put in many tireless hours of effort to bring a

[Nanog-futures] admins@ autoresponse

2010-11-29 Thread Joe Provo
[pardon for the use of futures as meta, but no other way to be sure it doesn't lay unattended in a filter somewheres] From http://www.nanog.org/governance/communications/ You can reach all of us at adm...@nanog.org. In response to message last night sent from my nanog@ list-subscribed

Re: [Nanog-futures] New Membership-WG Draft

2010-10-27 Thread Joe Provo
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 05:39:56PM -0700, Jay Hennigan wrote: [snip] There isn't a test, investigation, or vetting. The member decides if they have an interest and understands the reason for membership. If there isn't vetting, why does the board approve membership? No other nonprofit

Re: [Nanog-futures] Memberships, Bylaws and other election matters

2010-10-05 Thread Joe Provo
An interesting exercise might be to compare the cost of a vote (thus far the only membership benefit) today and as proposed. -Today Students: Max 60/yr (20 per meeting) at $50 per (minimum $100 / 2 years) Standard: $225 (minimum 1 meeting at $450 / 2 years) Freebies: SC-approved

Re: [Nanog-futures] NANOG Transition Plan track will be webcast

2010-06-14 Thread Joe Provo
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 09:39:51AM -0700, Steve Feldman wrote: On Jun 14, 2010, at 9:16 AM, Randy Bush wrote: For those interested, the NANOG Transition Plan session, scheduled for 4:30-6:00pm Monday, will be webcast. ahem. i presume this will not interfere with the webcasting of the

Re: [Nanog-futures] Smoke at NANOG meetings

2009-10-26 Thread Joe Provo
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 07:34:47PM -0400, Jared Mauch wrote: [snip] I would be keen to see this restriction put in-place, but unless you are hosting the meeting and picking the venue, it may be challenging. Until we're swimming in competing hosting offers, it may not be feasible to

Re: [Nanog-futures] Draft Policy re individual sites

2009-05-12 Thread Joe Provo
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 08:25:10AM -0700, kris foster wrote: On May 12, 2009, at 7:32 AM, Jared Mauch wrote: On May 12, 2009, at 9:10 AM, Martin Hannigan wrote: some 'action'. That action is usually like using reload as a workaround to a hardware problem instead of replacing the buggy

Re: [Nanog-futures] Fwd: ADMIN: Reminder on off-topic threads

2009-04-22 Thread Joe Provo
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 05:46:50AM -0400, Rich Kulawiec wrote: On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 09:43:22PM -0700, Paul Ferguson wrote: [snip] In any event, I think security-related issues are much more on topic than ARIN IPv4 policy foo. I think I mildly disagree with this. The allocation of

Re: [Nanog-futures] Fwd: ADMIN: Reminder on off-topic threads

2009-04-22 Thread Joe Provo
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 09:32:13PM -0700, Paul Ferguson wrote: [snip] I don't mind gentle reminders, but non-specific gestures cloud the issue and sometimes appear hypocritical. I could easily name a few other threads on NANOG currently that I believe are off-topic, so if the MLC is going to

[Nanog-futures] Conference Network Experiment policy

2009-04-07 Thread Joe Provo
Heya, There have been periodic inquiries for network-based experiments on the NANOG conference network. While there is a serious benefit to be gained by experimenters exposing their projects to the NANOG attendees, there is a need to balance that with meeting attendees having a functional

Re: [Nanog-futures] new website

2008-09-04 Thread Joe Provo
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 12:43:54PM -0700, Scott Weeks wrote: [snip] I agree. Great job! It even works perfectly fine with Firefox on FreeBSD with javascript not allowed via NoScript. Impressive. (It takes a lot to make me say that! :-) Brian @merit did a great job taking pains to placate

Re: [Nanog-futures] default routes question or any way to do the rebundant

2008-03-21 Thread Joe Provo
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 03:15:00AM -0400, Donald Stahl wrote: [snip] If that's the case then might I sugggest changing the pages that discuss what is, and what is not, apropriate for the mailing list? Those questions were not relevant to large network operators but if that is no longer the

Re: [Nanog-futures] The Peering BOF and the Fallout?

2008-02-24 Thread Joe Provo
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 03:12:55AM -0600, Chris Malayter wrote: Greetings All, What's the deal with the Peering BOF for NY? I've heard rumors running wild that we're not going to have one, we're going to have one but Bill isn't going to run it, to we're moving to a peering track and a