First of all, I'm glad this issue has been raised, as I felt it for a
while now that we need some more organisation, especially regarding PR..
Here's my answers:
On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 04:35:28AM -0700, william(at)elan.net wrote:
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 we do need more coordination and some idea of centrality.
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
A
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
A (this thus excludes those who help out in all kinds of areas, eg. the
support team)
3. Do you believe that organization function should include:
a. Maintainance of SPF website: YES / NO
b. Publishing official SPF protocol documents: YES/NO
c. Sponsoring development of SPF implementaton libraries: YES/NO
d. Providing support to end-users who publish SPF records: YES/NO
e. Provididing official SPF position on given topics
(per request of media, government, etc): YES/NO
f. Communication with softwre vendors and companies
in regards to SPF deployment: YES/NO
YES: A, B, D (support team already active atm), E, F
DUNNO: C
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
B
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
Note: why insisting on a US based institution, i'd have much more
confidence in some european based institution (which will be cheaper
anyway).
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
It can't be stopped, and Meng is the first honorary member, whether he
wants it or not :)
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
If there is a split, we are not doing the right thing. A split will be
disastrous.
Koen
Ps: sorry I didn't honour your request to answer in the boxes, i don't
really believe in multiple choice questions.
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