[ripe-list] The Future of Discussion Lists

Morning, all.

When I attended my first RIPE in 1998, the idea that you could do policy coordination on _the internet_, especially on an open list that uncredentialled people could just join, was pretty radical.

It's not radical anymore. Well done, us.

Leo's right, and the problems he identifies are real.

Reading this thread, most of what I see are "minimum requirements". Implicit in this seems to be the idea that Important People Won't Join if those requirements aren't met.

What I don't see so much yet is a picture of what a new, radical, open approach could look like. Which is the thing that made RIPE successful in the first place.

All the best,
Anna

p.s. Some mistakes will definitely be made. That's good? That means some decisions are being made.

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