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From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
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Subject: Re: STV new group proposal in 25 lines
Keywords: stv votes group creation interest surveys
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Date: 16 Dec 89 00:56:40 GMT
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At least from the postings, it seems that many people think that voting
on group names is good solution, and that this does not need to be
explained.

I want it explained.  What is the purpose in naming groups, and given
that purpose, how does that dictate how a namespace should be
structured?

And in particular, why would voting on names attain these goals?

It seems to me that allocating names in a namespace is the sort of
thing which is almost never voted on by the public-at-large in real life.
Why do people take it as a given here?   Should internet numbers and
top level domains be decided by a vote?  Filenames for the location of
source code on a Unix system?   Street numbers?  Should the location
of a book in the library be voted upon by the borrowers?

If not these things, then why group names?
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Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473