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Index of Subjects Hi all, On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Andrew D. Wright wrote: > (1) There is no mechanism in place to restrict or monitor IP disk > usage. > > (2) As Chris pointed out, there is no way for an IP to check their > disk usage if they wanted to. > > (3) Unless an IP stumbles upon this page informing them of our > membership levels, they just plain flat out do not know about them in the > first place. > > (4) There is no mechanism in place to expire or renew or track > expiry dates on IP accounts. > > (5) There is no incentive for an organization to go to any > higher level of membership because of 1, 2, 3, and 4 above. Good points. > (6) There is no policy on IP expirations. Do we turn them off if > they don't renew? What form does renewal take? Does the office now build a > dossier on every IP and file renewal letters? Does the office now send out > notices of expiration? Even better point. If we accept the importance of 'content' for the CCN and our role in supporting information arising from this community, then it seems clear to me that we need to support IPs and house their information, even if they have no funds to pay us. In relation 'value-added' services such as VDNs we could threaten to close-down domain-name aliasing to it if the IPs didn't renew. This ought to be quite effective in motivating them to pay on a regular basis. ;-> We'd also have to look at the technical repercussions of this (i.e. many bouncing HTTP requests, etc.) but it seems to me at first glance to be 'do-able.' > I've said it before and I'll say it again: to make a working airline, > you need to build planes, man them and fuel them, you don't just type up > a flight schedule and nail it to a tree. Best point! ;-> To make things run (with an IP constituency of 200+ & growing) we need to have technical and administrative mechanisms to implement these things. Otherwise they just get lost in the tall grass of all the other things which need doing. Cheers, Chris _._._._._._._.._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. Christopher Majka <aa051@chebucto.ns.ca> Editor-in-Chief: Chebucto Community Net - Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada URL = http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Home.html _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._.
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