Policies affecting the Internet as a whole - Hitting where it hurts

Sat Dec 28 05:38:46 UTC 1996

On Fri, 27 Dec 1996, jenni baier wrote:

> How about creating some organization for which the pre-requisite of
> membership would be adherence to a charter which outlined some standards
> and policies for dealing with other ISPs when giving complaints and
> standards for dealing with complaints received?  The membership list could
> be published and serve as a list of providers worth using, rather than
> publishing a "bad" list (which, it has already been shown, is
> problematic).  
> 
> I'd be willing to put some time and effort into making something like this
> work...

Have a look at http://www.ispc.org

This is still a young organization but some sort of program like you are
suggesting is on the to-do list there, awaiting only demand and
participation of others to make it happen.

Michael Dillon                   -               Internet & ISP Consulting
Memra Software Inc.              -                  Fax: +1-604-546-3049
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