Subj : Re: 2025 FTSC election
To   : Michiel van der Vlist
From : Kurt Weiske
Date : Sat Feb 22 2025 08:16 am

-=> Michiel van der Vlist wrote to BjArn Felten <=-

 MvV> If you go through your Fidonews archives you will find two aticles of
 MvV> mine. Each proposing to drop one level of hierarchie. One to drop the
 MvV> Region level and another to drop the zone level.

 MvV> I would not mind if you published them again.

I've posted the same thing - I thought you could get rid of the zone
politics by making everything one zone, but then people complained about
whether it'd be called Zone 1 or Zone 2.   :)

We're starting to see regional attrition, Z1C has consolidated zones
recently when a RC retired. That might help with some of the
complication.

Separate IP-only legacy networks are the biggest complication, I'd think
- why have a region with a handful of legacy nets with 1-2 nodes and no
NC? When I first took over R10 I was NC for 5-6 legacy nets that had no
separate NC. I took those and moved those into an IP-only net where I
could (except for one net that's well advertised and nets where people
wanted to be NC to manage their own net)

That low-level consolidation cleared up a lot of the complication. If
everyone did that, from the bottom-up, I think we'd get rid of a lot of
that overhead.


 
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