On Jan 12, 2008 3:49 PM, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:
We could just meet at the Universal Postal Union meeting, and get rid of all those extra organizations like the ITU, IETF, NANOG, etc :-)
The fun part is, they do take a lot of interest in this too .. the US postal service, the various European Lapostes etc - anybody who operates a postal bank + wire transfer system and gets to face phishers, malware and such just like regular banks do. That wasn't an argument for consolidation .. more like "cooperation". And the sort of cooperation that isnt aimed at making headlines and scoring points .. stuff like (for example) surveys of the top 10 best and worst registrars (which dont name the very worst, and include some very good registrars among the worst, but that's another story altogether..).
Having both shared and separate meetings and communications is important.
We can all learn alot from sharing. But its also important for organizations and people to be able to communicate just with similar
We're on the same page there, Sean. srs