[Nanog-futures] Cisco outage

[David Barak]

> > The AUP does not apply in this case.  However, it does
> seem 
> > that Marty (and
> > whomever) are between a rock and a hard place with the
> 
> > options left if private mail is not deliverable.
> 
> Only if Marty is Lord High Poobah of the mailing list. But
> he is not. There are *FIVE* other MLC members who
> presumably
> are not wholly dependent on gmail.com for their email. One
> wonders why Marty could not have passed this case on to
> other
> MLC members to deal with.

Marty indicated in an email to the rest of the MLC that he forced the issue to show a problem with the current structure and content of the AUP.  There were several decision points along the way where he could have chosen differently.  

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Marty's interpretation of the AUP (that it governs mail between an MLC member and a list subscriber, whether or not it traverses Merit's servers) is not universal, and is currently hotly debated on the admin list.  I for one do not share his interpretation.  I expect that this will be sorted out soon, and we'll post a note with the outcome either way.

Sorry for the list noise, and for any confusion which is caused thereby.

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> Somebody needs to write a NANOG soap opera and put on
> an evening performance at one of the meetings.

I'm game if others are...

David Barak
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