[governance] New membership database: choose your own username

[Don Cameron]

Hello from a ‘non-member lurker’ (given I have not previously posted to this list even though I thank all contributors for the tremendous value offered in recent discussions). Please accept my apologies for this omission and be assured of my support for the IGC and objectives of good governance. I do promote the work of the IGC within my domains of influence and remain hopeful the term lurker was not meant to be derogatory.

While I am not sure why it is required, or under whose authority - I attempted to subscribe to the requested database however was unable to locate a database privacy policy. Could someone please provide a link? (better would be a URL to the policy on the subscription page) – Hopefully reluctance to enter personal details into an online database without such a policy or protections in place needs no explanation.  

Don


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From: Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org>
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org;
CC: roland at internetpolicyagency.com;
Subject: Re: [governance] New membership database: choose your own username
On 03/01/2011, at 8:15 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> On 02/01/2011, at 10:40 PM, Roland Perry wrote:
>
>> Having registered and validated (an extra step not mentioned above) it then says the account has to be "authorised". Which is perhaps why...
I've just noticed I'm missing some emails (my work email address has been down), in which people are expressing a couple of concerns that I need to address.
First, there is no change to the criteria for IGC membership. The requirement for registration applications to be approved by an administrator is inherent in the software that we are using. There is no discretion on my part to refuse applications (perhaps except for obvious spam registrations, of which there have been none so far). If it's a big concern, probably we could amend the software to remove the requirement for administrator's approval.
Second, the list has not moved. But the list does not have all the facilities we need for a membership database, and neither does our Web site. So what I've done is to create an LDAP database on a third server (igf-online.net) which the other two servers (lists.cprs.org and www.igcaucus.org) use to access the list of IGC members. Ideally, we would have our own dedicated server which would host all these facilities... but we have no funding, so we are reliant on the generosity of sponsors.
I'm happy to address any other concerns as they come up.
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