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We're having an IRC discussion and discussing what we should do about
organizing in that forum as well as here on the list... what follows are
some comments/thoughts I had while in IRC... since IRC is pretty
fleeting and this seems an important discussion to me I wanted to send
them to the list as well.
<csm-laptop> peoples behavior will continue to be as it has been... this
should not dissuade us from setting and following a viable course... so
to me the real question continues to be...
<csm-laptop> to organize, or not. if so... what scope and structure we
apply seem to me to be the point of our discussion up to this point of
digression
<csm-laptop> some people say just SPF steering... PHB is saying make it
an accountable standards group to match SPF's status as the current
defacto standard...
<csm-laptop> I happen to agree with him....
<csm-laptop> because I believe that if we fail to fill this void someone
else will... that would waste the resource we have as the inarguable top
dog in this space right now
<csm-laptop> and if we give someone a wedge point they will use it.
<csm-laptop> M$ proved that during the IETF debacle...
<csm-laptop> if someone wants to say we're "forking" the IETF then let
them... personally I think a little competition in the standards place
would be very useful...
<csm-laptop> though I don't hold myself up as a shining example of
leadership with respect to SPF (I really cannot code my way out of a wet
paper sack) I will not take a back seat to anyone as an implementor...
thus I can easily see what needs to be done and do it and after more
than 20 years doing administration I think I have a good grasp on what a
"standard" is and should be
added afterwards: *AND* I think that SPF *IS* already a standard though
there is no organized party shepherding it as of now.
<csm-laptop> if WE do not impose our will in this space then someone
else will impose theirs on us... it *IS* that simple and if we do not
carpe this here diem we will have lost what is undoubtedly the best and
greatest opportunity we have had thus far to make a real difference
<csm-laptop> So... am I arguing for the larger scope? you bet... because
for reasons stated above I believe it is our best chance for success!
- --
csm(_at_)moongroup(_dot_)com, head geek
http://moongroup.com
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