Nan:2006-08-14-iso-dev-lcc

From: board@big-8.org (The Big-8 Management Board)
Subject: 3rd RFD: remove comp.protocols.iso.dev-environ (LAST CALL FOR COMMENTS)
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups, news.groups,
 comp.protocols.iso.dev-environ, comp.protocols.misc
Followup-To: news.groups
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 12:51:53 -0700

                      REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
                 remove comp.protocols.iso.dev-environ

This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) to remove the unmoderated
newsgroup comp.protocols.iso.dev-environ.


PROCEDURE:

The B8MB plans to begin voting on this proposal after five days.  Please
offer any final discussion or comments before the end of this waiting
period.  Voting may take up to one week (7 days); a result will be posted
following the end of the voting period.

All discussion of this proposal should be posted to news.groups.

The full (draft) group removal procedure is documented here:

  http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:rmgroup



SUMMARY OF DISCUSSION:

 No comments were received.


RATIONALE: remove comp.protocols.iso.dev-environ

comp.protocols.iso.dev-environ has had no on-topic messages in the past
11 months.

This RFD is part of a proposal to remove 31 low-traffic former-INET
groups.  Please see article <1152814343.19576@isc.org>, available here:

    http://news.killfile.org/?group=news.announce.newgroups&number=1363

Note: the proposal to remove two of the 31 groups, comp.os.rsts and
comp.std.announce, has been withdrawn.


HISTORY: 

comp.protocols.iso.dev-environ has existed as an INET group since at least 1987.
It was promoted to the standard Big 8 distribution in October 2000.


DISTRIBUTION:

This document has been posted to the following newsgroups:

  news.announce.newgroups
  news.groups
  comp.protocols.iso.dev-environ
  comp.protocols.misc


CHARTER:

The newsgroup line is:

comp.protocols.iso.dev-environ	The ISO Development Environment.


PROPONENT: 

Jim Riley <jimrtex@pipeline.com>



CHANGE HISTORY: 

2006-08-14     3rd RFD (Last call for Comments)
2006-07-13     2nd ("comprehensive") RFD
2006-07-06     1st RFD