Hello Rick.

09 Nov 02 00:06, you wrote to Scott Little:

 RR> That is pretty clear to me then that the FTSC is the authority when it
 RR> comes to nodelist flags.

The Coordinators have /no/ say at all, eh...?

The FTSC means /nothing/ if what they propose is not accepted by the *C's.
The *C's are the final authority on what will and will not be used as a
flag in the nodelist, and what each flag means.

The *C's have the power to make any nodelist changes they want to, and the
FTSC is relegated to recording what has been accepted by them. If the FTSC
ignores the wishes of the Coordinators, they become useless to this
network.

Maybe this is at the root of the problem. Too many people have been putting
the cart before the horse in this network for /way/ too long a time. The
FTSC may fancy itself some sort of "authority" based on some
perceived techno-geeky intellectual hierarchy (read bovine scatology)
expressed through the FTSC nomination and election process, but in reality
they are far less important in the decision making process than the
Coordinators, or even the end nodes, if enough of them protest loudly
enough for a change.


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