I'm reforwarding my poll on SPF Organization in hopes that today may cause
some more people who did not originally answer this poll to do it and if
you're in US this may also remind you to go out and participate in another
important poll (and if you're not in US, here is a chance to participate
in at least one poll today :). The SPF organization poll will close on
Wednesday at 10pm PDT and I'll summarize results on Thursday morning.
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, but it is necessary for future when deciding on such an
important organizational issue to get opinion of more then 5-10 persons.
0. 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
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
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
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
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
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
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William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william(_at_)elan(_dot_)net