Subj : 2025 FTSC election
To   : Kurt Weiske
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Sun Feb 23 2025 02:16 pm

Hello Kurt,

On Saturday February 22 2025 08:16, you wrote to me:

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

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

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

I would not mind if all the traces of "zones" were completely eradicated from Fidonet. Zones were never correctly implemented technically anyway. But that isn't going to happen of course. My next best option would be to use zone 0. But that would cause a lot of problems I expect. Many implementations use 0 as a signal that a zone  number has not been entered yet. Those implementation are not going away. So.. zone 1 will be the logical choice. I could live with it.

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

Yes, that is good.

KW> Separate IP-only legacy networks are the biggest complication, I'd
KW> think - why have a region with a handful of legacy nets with 1-2 nodes
KW> and no NC?

Why indeed.

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

Agreed.


Cheers, Michiel

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