Darren Reed writes:
> Why are they unwieldly?

The point of communities is to guide and endorse individual projects
in the pursuit of some shared (community) goal.  What is that goal for
Networking?  Why does it endorse some networking-related things and
not others?  What is that shared vision?

Of the existing communities, I think that Networking and perhaps
Approachability represent internal Sun management organization (and
history) more than they do anything about guiding projects.

(I feel a lot more strongly about "Networking" being overly vague than
"Approachability.")

> Perhaps someone needs to start by trying not to put all of the 
> OpenSolaris Networking
> content on a single community web page.

Agreed.

> e.g. Why does the OpenSolaris Networking community web page mention (or need
> to mention) Solaris 10?

No idea.  It seems greatly out of scope.

> I'd like to see a summary of the problems that are considered worthy of
> solving before we start suggesting things to make things better, otherwise
> how do we know if we're actually achieving what we need to?

I think it'd be good to have a public discussion about what sorts of
high-level goals we want to achieve.

"Improve networking performance" could be such a goal to rally a
community around.  "Add networking utilities" or "enhance routing" or
"simplify network configuration" could be other networking-related
communities.

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