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Re: [Din] kick-start the discussion on DINRG charter revision

Lixia Zhang <lixia@cs.ucla.edu> Wed, 22 March 2023 18:46 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Din] kick-start the discussion on DINRG charter revision
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Hi Melinda,

Thanks for the clarification/correction to my earlier msg. Since I wasn't involved in DINRG early days, I could have misspoken, apology!

At this time, it seems to me that the most important bit is a consensus among the group on which direction to move forward to.

Lixia

> On Mar 22, 2023, at 10:27 AM, Melinda Shore <melinda.shore@nomountain.net> wrote:
> 
> On 3/22/23 2:58 AM, Mallory Knodel wrote:
> > I do not believe the two topics— blockchain and internet centralisation—
> > are enough alike to justify a simple recharter the DINRG.
> 
> dinrg was not chartered as a blockchain-focused group, but people hear
> "decentralization" and immediately think blockchain and distributed
> ledgers, so that's largely, but not entirely, what we got.
> 
> FWIW, I think the proposed charter makes a lot of sense.  Because
> there are so many other decentralized technology events and venues
> it was always difficult to attract participation from people with
> domain expertise, and the group ended up with attendance and attention
> but not so much participation.  Removing the emphasis from actual
> decentralization technology to the broader questions about internet
> centralization does not, I think, change the overall relationship of the
> group to the I* community but does improve the likelihood of productive work coming from it.
> 
> FWIW it was often frustrating that it was assumed that dinrg was a
> blockchain research group and while we did get participation from
> projects using DHTs and whatnot I do think that that incorrect
> understanding tended to limit what was actually done.  I like the
> overall direction of the new proposed charter.
> 
> Melinda
> 
> 
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> Melinda Shore
> melinda.shore@nomountain.net
> 
> Software longa, hardware brevis
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