net-co-op (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)
Based on the response I've gotten off-list from people interested in sharing our resources & know-how with each other, I've just registered net-co-op.org. In the next couple of days I'll set up a mailing list and a basic web page. Once the mailing list is set up, I'll post another message to NANOG. On the net-co-op mailing list we can hash out a basic charter agreement and get to know each other. More to come... Janet
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 02:01:43PM -0700, Janet Sullivan wrote:
Based on the response I've gotten off-list from people interested in sharing our resources & know-how with each other, I've just registered net-co-op.org. ...
Oh come on, what was .coop for if not this? :) -- Daniel Medina
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Daniel Medina wrote:
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 02:01:43PM -0700, Janet Sullivan wrote:
Based on the response I've gotten off-list from people interested in sharing our resources & know-how with each other, I've just registered net-co-op.org. ...
Oh come on, what was .coop for if not this? :)
People in the poultry business? :-) -- Jay Hennigan - CCIE #7880 - Network Administration - jay@west.net WestNet: Connecting you to the planet. 805 884-6323 WB6RDV NetLojix Communications, Inc. - http://www.netlojix.com/
net-co-op.org. ...
Oh come on, what was .coop for if not this? :)
People in the poultry business? :-)
chicken.coop was sought for by many, myself included. The Director, Co-op Business Development and Member Services, National Cooperative Business Association, and I are now playing phone tag, so I expect to have some progress to report for a member-owned colo coop on a daily basis. It occurs to me that a member-owned colo coop is not necessarily location-dependent, nor uniquely valued. Eric
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 13:28:24 PST, Jay Hennigan said:
Oh come on, what was .coop for if not this? :)
People in the poultry business? :-)
Actually, a somewhat reasonable conclusion for a non-native speaker of English, and a concern that *does* have to be addressed by many of the "plethora of TLD" proposals that crop up every once in a while. '.coop' probably has less mnemonic value on a worldwide basis than the Mandarin characters for the capital city of China....
Janet, Since your note earlier today there have been just under 200 fetches of the html. I've written to Byron Henderson and asked him to help me with the coop formation. He and I worked on the .coop sTLD proposal, and as I mention I discussed member-owned colo coop with Carolyn Hoover of the NCBA this week, as well as the similar idea for bloggers as a vhost user class in Rome last week. There are not a lot of cooperatives out there ... Mt. Xinu was employee owned. Poptel was an employee-owned coop in the ISP and hosting markets, including the .coop registry implementor and operator, but recently was forced to convert to structured venture-equity ownership. There is some bandwidth purchaser's cooperative in the South West ... Cheers, Eric
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