Re: [gnso-vi-feb10] SRSU

[Eric Brunner-Williams <ebw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think my earlier note on agency is still useful. At IBM, where 
Armonk "owned" everything, I owned an IBM operating system product, 
and I owned the entire corporate 802.5 link layer while figuring out 
the undocumented semantics of the Routing Information Field that 
caused the collapse of very large internal production rings. 
(Congestive collapse is cool, from a single ARP request response pair 
across a highly interconnected mesh of physical rings)
I think I and everyone I worked with at PASC, Austin and Armonk had 
more agency, more "freedom" to use IBM's internal, and even its 
external facing properties, than a brand promotion proposition 
exploiting a weakness in the management of the public mapping to 
publicly routable addresses.
SizeOf(#products) << SizeOf(#employees) << SizeOf(#subscribers)

If we have anything, and I claim we do not, as there is more 
unattempted policy here than attempted, it is on the extreme left hand 
side of this little "<<" encrusted line, where SizeOf(#products) is 
bounded above by 10^^2, and SizeOf(#employees) is bounded above by 
10^^5 and SizeOf(#subscribers) is bounded above by 10^^7.
I don't mind refreshes of the 10^^2 names periodically, as products 
reach EOL and new ones are launched, it just doesn't make what hasn't 
been done (missing policy development) magically done.
I also don't mind if 2->3, 4 is a problem for reserved lists, a 
registry ought to have a clear idea why it is carving out tens of 
thousands of names from what can be registered.
Eric

On 7/2/10 3:44 PM, Avri Doria wrote:
> > > controls the names completely.
>
> I have been wondering what this really means.
>
> e.g when i used to have a real job, the laptop i used was completely owned by 
> my employer.
>
> he gave it to me
> he tok it away when he wanted
> he could snoop on it all he liked
> and he could even slap my wrist if i did something wrong with it.
> but, pretty much i did with what i pleased while i had it.
> and different employers have different level of micromanagement with regard to 
> the systems they distribute.
>
> likewise if my employer give me myname.brand
>
> he can take it away
> he can check it out anytime
> and he can slap my wrist if do bad.
> but i could post anything i thought i could get away with.
> at least until i was caught.
>
> is this what people mean by
>
> > > controls the names completely.     ?
> is it a matter of ultimate responsibility and liability, with no possibility of 
> an intermediate's freedom from liability?
>
> a.