[Nanog-futures] Question about "permanent bans"

[Stephen Wilcox]

On 28 Feb 2008, at 08:32, Joel Jaeggli wrote:

> Martin Hannigan wrote:
>> Do folks think that we ought to do a charter amendment to allow for
>> permanent bans? That seems like a huge issue and that we may want to
>> get an up or down vote. The way we would address it is either adding
>> it as a "power" of the MLC, or even the SC -- then right a non  
>> charter
>> procedure to develop "the how".
>>
>> We have one person banned "for life and a day" and we don't seem to
>> have a way to address that. We addressed it in v.01 of the MLC where
>> we wanted the decks cleared of bans and added everyone back in, but
>> then we were forced to "re-ban" said miscreant.
>>
>> Please advise.
>
> I would do two things:
>
> characterize it as indefinite rather than permanent.
>
> Assign right of review to the sc without guidelines as to when or how
> review might occur.

yes altho i would make sure that review occurs periodically.. these  
things are highly unusual (1 person in all these years) so i don't  
think it hurts to keep things in the discussion every few months. i  
was on that MLC and was disappointed it had to be that way

you may even want to try unbanning some time just to test the water,  
that would seem to be within the spirit of things, no?

Steve