RESULT: news.admin.peering will be created
Big-8 Management Board
news.admin.peering
The Last Call for Comments on December 13, 2008, initiated a five-day period
for final comments. Following this comment period, the Big-8 Management
Board has voted to create the newsgroup news.admin.peering. The vote
was 6 in favor and 1 against.
This group will be created on December 22, 2008.
NEWSGROUPS LINE:
news.admin.peering Article flow, server peering requests, & offers.
CHARTER:
News.admin.peering is an unmoderated group where news server
administrators may request or offer peering with other news servers.
Queries regarding connectivity problems and server closing
announcements are also permitted. Discussions on how to best pick
peers (at random or via some plan) is also on-topic. Discussions
regarding hierarchy propagation may be permitted (however, also see
"news.admin.hierarchies").
Issues regarding spam or network abuse are better posted to the
"news.admin.net-abuse.*" groups.
Posters are expected to abide by normal Usenet standards of decorum,
and to ignore articles intended to disrupt the group. The usual
suspects are prohibited (spam, binaries, direct advertising, etc.).
DISTRIBUTION:
This document has been posted to the following newsgroups:
news.announce.newgroups
news.groups.proposals
news.software.nntp
news.admin.misc
alt.usenet.peering
PROPONENT:
D. Stussy, rep...@newsgroups.kd6lvw.ampr.org
CHANGE HISTORY:
2008-12-02 1st RFD (informal)
2008-12-10 2nd RFD
2008-12-13 Last Call for Comments
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Kathy Morgan and Martin Moleski, co-chairs of the Big 8 Management Board