Hello Alex!

18 May 04 14:53, you wrote to me:

 RC>> Do you think it doesnt have it roots in the recent overturning of
 RC>> a ruling Ward as IC made in a PC?

 AS> Passwording out a link without a previouse agreement ever regarded XAB
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 AS> here.
     ^^^^
Very key distinction you make there.

Its how the coordinator structure in Zone 2 has chosen to interpret policy,
that interpretation is not universal.

 AS> Last overruling is a revolt, it has nothing in common with FidoNet and
 AS> with Policy. It's something riduculous, politically based and I will
 AS> not be surprised in case Fidonet will ignore such ZCC and it rulings.

and Wards new voting Formula remedies what?

 RC>> and as the saying goes,

 RC>> power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, by
 RC>> endowing Ward with absolute power, accomplishes what?

 AS> We've got in an exclusive cycle, and I'm afraid it happened long ago.
 AS> Yes, I'm against one-person ZCC, but I'm also against ZCC whoes deci-
 AS> sions kill the network.

With Wards new formula, every possible decision that the ZCC could make,
would be solely up to Ward.

The PC over-ruling presented no harm to the network, in the end, the
complainant had no reason to be contacting Witt, there was no technical
reason.


 AS> The only way I see to proceed is to ignore it. ZCC logic must be
 AS> changed. If we think it's a superior body, then its content has to be
 AS> propotional. One person with 90% of votes is a bad idea, but several
 AS> persons from a zone which represent 90% of sysops seems good to me. It
 AS> cannot serve as a superior body until this disbalance adjusted.

Its just Fidonets version of the UN or an appeals court, think of it as 6
wise men sitting on the tribal council.(metaphor)

and what has the ZCC had to decide on that has had such vast effects on the
network, lessee they put and end to a Policy Complaint that was between
just TWO sysops. Afyterwards people were running around thinking that it
sets a deadly precedent, for which I have not seen and Michiel seems to be
doing an admirable job now of ignoring Roy Witt, something he should of
done from the get go.

So lets go over what I know the ZCC has had to contend with since the year 2000..

Obviously skipping his election as IC then..

A.

They had a brief discussion with Ward, over the Steven Leeman incident, no
official vote..

This was when Ward as the Z2C threatened to take Steven out of the nodelist
for having registered the internet domain name "fidonet.be".

B.

The Michiel Van Der Vlist versus Roy Witt Policy Complaint.

C.

This latest vote regarding the IC thing..


Hmmm. Alex, this doesnt look like a very busy ZCC too me, 3 issues in
almost 4 years, only 2 of those 3 resulted in a official vote?

Can you explain to me how the ZCC is killing Fidonet?

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