William,
Thank you for this post, understanding that you have been involved with and
contribute actively and in positive ways to other such working groups, your
thoughts are well taken. My answers follow:
At 05:35 AM 10/22/2004, you wrote:
Instead of specific proposal as posted by John, I'd like to raise a point
of order question about directions for future for EVERYBODY on this list.
Please beware that I'm asking that you only answer questions as asked
(i.e. no long commentaries) and do it publicly on this list, I understand
that this may involve larger number of posts and so I apologize to
list administrator and other, but it is necessary for future when
deciding on such an important organizational issue to get opinion of
more then 5-10 persons at least to the main question.
MAIN QUESTION:
Do you believe that "SPF Community" needs to evolve into more structured
organization (rather then the current form of individuals participation
on the spf-discuss list with Meng as a chair of the group) and are you
willing to deligate responsibility for administering further development
of SPF to this organization?
Answers: YES / NO
YES
If answered yes, please answer as follows:
1. Do you prefer to have organization with
a. Strong member-chosen decision making board (i.e. parliment system)
which takes imput from community but can make all the decisions OR
b. Loose leadership commitee with functions limited to facilitating
discussion and deciding on the consensus (i.e. IETF WG model)
Answers: A / B
B
2. Please give approximate number of people that you believe to be
on the organization's oversight board:
a. 2-3
b. 4-6
c. 7-10
Answers: A / B / C
B - Caveat - Meng should always have an irrevocable position on this
oversight board for as long as he chooses to participate.
3. Do you believe that organization function should include:
a. Maintainance of SPF website: YES / NO
YES
b. Publishing official SPF protocol documents: YES/NO
YES
c. Sponsoring development of SPF implementaton libraries: YES/NO
YES
d. Providing support to end-users who publish SPF records: YES/NO
YES
e. Provididing official SPF position on given topics
(per request of media, government, etc): YES/NO
YES
f. Communication with softwre vendors and companies
in regards to SPF deployment: YES/NO
YES
4. Do you believe that for this organization to work it must have
official legal status (i.e. non-profit corporation)?
a. Not ever
b. Not now but maybe in the future
c. Should start on legally organized body now
Answers: A / B / C
C
If you answered C are you ready to immediatly donate up to US $100
for expenses related to establishing of this organization and thereafter
donate at least $50/year?
Answers: YES / NO
YES
5. In case founder of SPF Community (Meng) does not support creating of
this organization, should the group of other participants still go
ahead with its creation?
Answers: YES /NO
YES - although with my caveat in question 2, I would hope that he would
embrace supporting such an organization. The SPF community might consider
that good judgment and ethics tend to dictate that one always tries
extremely hard to leave the dance with the one they came with. The SPF
community and the SPF specification itself owes its existence to Meng -
something one should always be mindful of in any discussions of this nature.
If you answered YES in above, do you understand that this may mean a
split from current SPF group as represented by spf-discuss mail list?
Answers: YES / NO
YES - though I think it would be most regretful if this were to happen.
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William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william(_at_)elan(_dot_)net
Best,
Alan Maitland
The Commerce Company - Making Commerce Simple(sm)
http://WWW.Commerco.Com/