[MLB-WIRELESS] Resignation

[Ben Anderson]

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>  I gather most people are just eager to get something going
>  and just want the results faster than is possible at the
>  moment. Dunno if a committee is the best idea or not.

A carefully designed committee is ok.  Structure that limits liability,
prevents membership fees from being necessary, and most of all, is able,
willing, and capable of change -- if a better, incompatible network
technology comes along, change it's reccomendation despite the fact it'll
make a lot of nodes incompatible.
What worries me is that every system I've seen that starts off with 'careful
design' that's a step away from "freeness" evolves towards "less freedom".
Animal farm, George Orwell, for example (please think about the concepts I'm
talking about, don't flame me "socialism is nothing like what we're doing"
etc)

>  In line with my comments on IPs and OSPF, how about we have
>  something basic before we try and implement the 'ultimate'
>  and yet unknown answer.

As long as nothings glued down to "temporary hacked stuff."  And if backward
compatibility isn't a design consideration (implies the constituents are
willing to upgrade software) then there's really no problems with this
anyway, and in fact, I think it should be encouraged (a broader based system
is more likely to evolve the best system).

>  For meetings pre committee, lets start with basic some roles
>  and rules.
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I haven't seen those on the wiki, how about putting it up?  (the wiki seems
to be the accepted place to consolodate these ideas)

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I haven't been around long enough to fully appreciate what's gone on, but it
seems a lot of volunteer based systems fail because the volutneers "care"
too much about the system.  Thankyou for caring, Tyler.  I hope your
enthusiasm isn't damped too much.

Ben.


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