I'm concluding SPF Organization Poll with my own ansers to it.
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
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
A: YES
B: YES
C: NO
D: NO
Note For D, I know that SPF already provides support for publishers, but
providing support to every SPF publisher is just too much for SPF to take
on directly. I think SPF Organizational activity in supporting publishers
should be directed to helping ISPs and ISPs should then provide support
to their users who publish SPF records.
E: YES
F: 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 (But it is NO right now and yes only if we tried every available
method to convince Meng to be involved and failed).
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
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William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william(_at_)elan(_dot_)net