Roeland and all,
Although I in part agree with you with respect to the "Nature" of
Joe's post's I would also again point out that he did so in response
to failure of Elisabeth and/or the DNSO Admin.. responding to multiple
queries regarding selective censorship of him amongst others that he
specifically pointed out as also being censored, without any notice
or explanation as to why. This is clearly Wrong.
I agree that it would be a great idea to employ Openssl or some other
method for secure E-Mail on this mailing list. My guess is why this
has not been done is that some folks in some countries don't have
access to that technology, and/or that the DNSO and ICANN
has not chosen to invest in that technology.
Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
> We have just been witnesses to Joe Baptista masquerading as Elisabeth
> Porteneuve and writting things that, were I Elisabeth, would be personally
> embarrasing. Regardless about how I personally view Elisabeth (neutral) or
> my disagreement with her ideas, this behaviour is patently ungentelmanly, in
> the "old country" sense of the phrase.
>
> Last year, when we found out about the huge hole in the security of IFWP
> list, I tried to convince folks that we needed tighter authentication
> mechanisms. This was not only ignored, but ridiculed by some, in private
> e-mail to me. Notably, William Walsh was most aggressively vocal in his
> objections.
>
> These authentication mechanisms take a bit more work to setup, but are
> largely automated in operation. Using Public-Key cryptography tools, such as
> OpenSSL and PGP, one can even have strict authentication between the list
> user and the list hub. With the proper signing procedure, one can even have
> absolute knowledge that the message sender is truely the message author.
>
> If we can't acertain the message's source then we can't trust the message
> itself. I always was of the opinion that this sort of forum has no place for
> anonymous presences. Especially, since this list is the OFFICIAL meeting
> place of the DNSO General Assembly, this imperative should be even more
> strongly felt. That it is not, says a lot. How can we conduct the business
> of the GA when we don't even know how many of us are here, in how many
> changes of clothing? Alternatively, how can we reach any sort of consensus
> when we could have the same individual arguing both sides of a debate, under
> different guises, just to keep the argument going?
>
> I think that my point has been proved.
>
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> R O E L A N D M. J. M E Y E R
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