Chris (and the core) apparently believe that a person involved in
   NetBSD cannot have personal communications with another NetBSD
   person without those communications impacting the project. i have
   been punished, meanwhile Jonathan Stone now has CVS access.

That's a *serious* misrepresentation of the situation.

Imagine Company A and Company B are in a callaboration.  Person A from
from Company A calls up Person B from Company B and starts spewing
vitriol at him.  Regardless of whether or not one considers it a
`private' phone call, and especially since the only reason they are in
contact at all is the callaboration, it is completely reasonable, if
not expected, for Company A to reprimand Person A.  If reprimanding
doesn't work, then more serious action would be taken.

While it's true that NetBSD is not a real company, this situation is
still very analogous, and I'm quite certain that the seriousness of
your actions required our response.

BTW, in my experience, Jonathan has been a bit too eager to believe
that someone was stepping on him, but he's always been willing to at
least admit his mistakes.  I've had no quarrel with him that was not
resolved satisfactorily within a day.  He was also entirely willing to
distribute his changes even when he didn't have access to the CVS
tree.  But Jonathan is also not the only other person involved.