<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 25 Aug 2020 at 13:09, Fred Morris <<a href="mailto:m3047@m3047.net">m3047@m3047.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">That's a basic question which should be asked about any technology or <br>
service offering: why? what purpose is it intended to serve? By their <br>
actions clearly some people agree and some people disagree with me. Since <br>
it's a members-only service, maybe only members should care. I'm done with <br>
the discussion now.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It is not a member only service.  </div><div><br></div><div>The jabber service which it is replacing has been open only to the listed contacts of member organizations—about 300 people today. While requirements for member use drove most of the decision making around what software we would use, using something more flexible, usable, and easy to manage than jabber meant that opening it up to the wider community was an easy get, and so we did.</div><div><br></div><div>If this were a member only service, we would not have made an announcement about it on dns-operations, and would not have enabled open sign up in the software.</div><div><br></div><div>The purpose it's intended to serve has already been discussed up-thread; there is a perceived need for lower latency discussions than email affords. We have had requests from a couple of different segments of the community over the past many months, especially during the current lockdown, to provide a way for people to have those discussions.  </div></div></div>