[AFS3-std] AFS Standardization Proposal

Russ Allbery rra@stanford.edu
Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:29:45 -0700


Simon Wilkinson <simon@sxw.org.uk> writes:

> Personally, I believe that establishing any kind of competence hurdle is
> going to be extremely difficult to manage. I'd be interested in
> proposals of exactly how such a hurdle could be defined without
> introducing a significant level of subjectivity to the electoral
> process. Without a competence definition that avoids the need to make
> subjective decisions, my personal view is that we can't introduce an
> eligibility requirement.

I personally lean mildly in this direction as well.

> There are two options here - either leaving things as they are at
> grand.central.org, or moving them to systems which are hosted by the
> OpenAFS foundation, in whatever form that takes. It's very difficult to
> judge this at present, without knowing what the foundation can
> provide. In my opinion we should remove the language about where these
> functions are hosted from the document at present, and discuss further
> when the foundation has come into being.

Agreed.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>