Re: 44/8

[Seth Mattinen <sethm () rollernet us>]

On 7/22/19 10:16 AM, William Herrin wrote:
> Respectfully John, this wasn't a DBA or an individual figuring the org 
> name field on the old email template couldn't be blank. A class-A was 
> allocated to a _purpose_. You've not only allowed but encouraged that 
> valuable resource to be reassigned to an organization, this ARDC, and 
> then treated the organization as a proxy for the purpose. No one asked 
> you to do that. Nothing in the publicly vetted policies demanded that 
> you attach organizations to the purpose-based allocations and certainly 
> nothing demanded that you grant such organizations identical control 
> over the resources as the control possessed by folks who were the 
> intended direct recipients of assignments.


From the outside it kind of looks like someone created an org that 
didn't exist before but matched the name in whois and said "oh yeah 
that's ours, says so right there".