Slander aside, pretty cool news. I do have one stupid question though, what does the 'yy' in yycix stand for?
On 10/6/13, dera...@cvs.openbsd.org <dera...@cvs.openbsd.org> wrote: > Hi, yeah, it is really me. I find it strange posting to misc, > starting an email thread. Normally I finish the threads here. > > Most OpenBSD developers have known for a while, but I think it is > important to tell the greater community that I've been a bit busy for > about the last year. I have not been paying as much attention to > OpenBSD development as I'm expected to. Luckily, other developers > have done a great job keeping it on track. > > Why? With a group of others, I started setting up an Internet > Exchange in Calgary, and this has taken much time because it is highly > politicized and has encountered some resistance. > > http://yycix.ca > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YYCIX_Internet_Exchange_Community_Ltd > > Now, why do I mention this in relation to OpenBSD? Well, at the end > of 2007 someone decided to open an impersonation account on twitter in > my name, and start sending a mix of things I have said (see wikiquote > for instance), with things that I would never say. That account is > http://twitter.com/theoderaadt > > A few notes: The account has now changed to declare that it is a > parody account and renamed to "Not Theo de Raadt", as of a few days > ago. If you read back into the past, you will see true character of > the account and the individual. > > People in the local community were directed to the account, to give a > negative, if not slanderous, view of my character. The ones directing > them have high-profile roles in the community, so people would take > what they say as true. Since I am the network manager for the > exchange equipment, this by extension was meant to hurt YYCIX. > > Why would stewards of important infrastructure projects deliberately > spread such false stories? > > I will not mention names. I don't need to; many can dig a little and > figure out who those actors are. As a hint, search a little bit > higher. > > Finally, one thing that particularily bothers me in the old postings > is the mention of my old friend Itojun, a very dedicated developer of > IPv6. As many of you know, he and John Postel are the only two > internet architects currently honoured on an annual basis by the > Internet Society in the form of an award. > > http://www.internetsociety.org/what-we-do/grants-and-awards/awards/itojun-service-award > > Layers of hurt being thrown around. Why?
