[MLB-WIRELESS] AWA

[Matthew.C.Boyd at uts.edu.au]

My main concern about voting membership being open to anyone who just wants 
to sign up is that its open to abuse. It would be relatively easy for 
someone to stack a meeting or a vote. While the group has no assets and 
relys on cooperation then things are fine. I'm sure people can think of 
suitable horror stories or scenarios.
I don't think that people should need to be a member to access the network 
and classifying the guy in the cafe who uses my AP to check his email as a 
member might be stretching the point.
There might be a further layer of services that people would need to join 
to obtain (eg possibly internet to make it legal). I don't think there 
should be any restrictions on joining either. I do think that a waiting 
period should apply to new members when it comes to voting and applying for 
things like executive positions. Obviously we need to take into account 
that the group is very new so waiting periods should probably just be long 
enough for us to see trouble approaching and duck at this stage.

I think there needs to be a relatively narrow definition of membership that 
would probably include most of the people on this list.

Matt



At 11:19 AM 11/04/02 +1000, Steven Haigh wrote:
>When drafting the policy proposal, this was debated at great length...
>
>We ended up agreeing, that because it is a public network, and not a members
>only type thing, then we're never going to know exactly who or how many
>members we have... We are not going to restrict on people that connect to
>the network as a whole, and as such, we don't know who will access the
>network from day to day.
>
>Are the people that just use the network occasionally on a "because it's
>there" basis then members? how do we track them down?
>
>One idea that was raised is that we have an online "Voting Members"
>database. This would require you to enter your name, address, phone number
>etc, and also entitle you to one vote. Now this eventually could be used for
>online voting, proxy voting, meeting votes etc - but we are not at a stage
>at this specific point in time to make that happen... This is our main
>driving force behind getting at least a structure approved and running on
>Friday. The other details can be altered according to the policy...
>
>Signed,
>Steven Haigh


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