NANOG-futures

[Martin Hannigan]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 4:50 AM,  <michael.dillon@bt.com> wrote:
> >     http://www.fugawi.net/~hannigan/nanog-mlcp1-1.pdf
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>  This is just plain weird. Is this some kind of legal requirement in the
>  USA? Has anyone ever posted any copyrighted material to the NANOG list?

Probably.

>  Given the short size of email messages, wouldn't any copyrighted
>  material be considered to be "fair use" quotations?

I'm not a lawyer so I don't know. It's in there for operational use. I
was using examples so I kept it. It may not be needed.

>  It wouldn't hurt to clarify the AUP with specific examples but the added
>  text in this document is wishy washy and detracts from the short punchy
>  nature of the AUP itself.

What specifically is wishy washy?

>
>  On the other hand, a statement like:
>    No Differentiation
>    The MLC will consider all policies equal.
>  isn't punchy at all. It's just meaningless and I wonder why it is in the
>  MLC processes.

Historically, there was a belief that some AUP items were more
important than others and it had been codified in other documents.

>  For that matter, given that this is an MLC operational procedure
>  document, why is it repeating the AUP at all?

It doesn't have to. It's there are a reference and I tried to make the
rationale give it some text so that there is a common understanding of
why an item may exist to make support decisions more consistent.

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