Re: SPF Organization - Questions to ALL particpants on the list on futur

John Glube wrote:
> From: william(at)elan.net Sent: October 22, 2004 7:35 AM
>
> 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 delegate
> 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 
> 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, yes, no, yes, yes, 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
>  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
b
> 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
>    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, yes

> John