Dale Shipp wrote in a message to Thom Lacosta:

 -=> On 09-13-02  16:47, Thom Lacosta <=-
 -=> spoke to Dale Shipp about P4 Draft (ver. 5) <=-

 DS> versus a   majority of all RCs.   He might well have said that he
 DS> would do some   active testing to check if an RC still existed --
 DS> and then base the   result on the number of RCs who respond to that
 DS> testing (and remove   the rest?).   TTTT, I don't really know what
 DS> he would do.  I only know   what policy 4.07 says.

 TL> Hmmm, let's see, can the IC really remove an RC, or is that the
 TL> function of  the ZC?  If it's a ZC function, then maybe the ZCs need to
 TL> determine which RCs are alive...
 DS>  
 DS>   Only in the zone where he is also ZC.   For the other zones, he
 DS> would   need to ask the ZC of that zone to "take care of it".  

That's the way I read P4...but not being a lawyer, I'm always suspect of my
understanding of documents that have words with more than one sylable.

 DS> OTOH, I think   that zone 2 has almost the majority of the RCs.  
 DS> Zone 1 has 10.  A   count from a number of months ago shows Z2 with
 DS> 31, Z3 with 5, Z4 with   3, Z5 with 9 and Z6 with 7 (total then was
 DS> 65).  Now there are 60 RCs.   I don't know what zones the change of
 DS> 5 came from.

Not that anyone would think that blood is thicker than water and that the
Zone 2 RCs might defend the IC just because he's from Zone 2.

cya,
thom
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