Well the current lists have an archive, and don't use any authentication to speak of except to change your email address.
I don't know that they are that bad. Yes there are more sophisticated ones like google groups but that has no RP functionality to speak of. I don't think picking a better listserv should delay starting the committees. The archives can be moved even if it is a pain. John B. On 2010-01-29, at 11:27 PM, Daniel Jacobson wrote: > I am not sure what te process should be either, but these lists need to be > moved somewhere that supports: > > 1. Archiving and easy search and recovery of previous posts. > 2. Support for OpenID. > > > On Jan 29, 2010, at 9:21 PM, John Bradley <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Brian, >> >> I thought that David was the keeper of the lists. >> >> I don't have any plan to move them, though would help with that if the board >> makes that decision. >> >> I observed that there are existing lists like Legal and security that could >> be used to get things started, and moved if needed. >> >> I joined Legal and discovered that there are over 140 members of the list. >> >> On the upside the business of the committee would not be secret. >> >> I can take the lead on getting one of the committees going to elect >> co-chairs. >> >> However if as you indicated the Committee elects its own chairs, and any >> committee member can run, I am not certain that the outcome of having board >> members as chairs is necessarily the likely outcome. >> >> I am assuming that the committees are not WG and don't have IPR rules. >> >> So anyone who joins the list is a member? >> >> I recall that when the Security list was set up originally, Tony was >> appointed chair so there was no real election process. >> The list never saw much use. >> >> If these are real committees and not just random comment email lists we >> probably need some basic guidelines on the rules for board committees. >> >> There seems to be some inertia to getting started. >> >> I am one of the new people on the board, I don't have a good feel for how >> committees functioned or not with previous boards. >> >> I am tempted to pick a committee declare myself Chair pro tem and organize >> an election to replace myself. >> >> This process seems to have stalled for the last week. >> >> John B. >> >> On 2010-01-29, at 10:57 PM, Brian Kissel wrote: >> >>> Hi John, >>> >>> What did you resolve for managing mailing lists going forward? Are you >>> advocating moving to Google lists, something else, or staying with what we >>> have today. In any case, Global Inventures and the Executive Director >>> should have administrative access to all mailing lists for the benefit of >>> continuity. >>> >>> From the mailing lists we have right now… >>> >>> board >>> [no description available] >>> Code >>> [no description available] >>> eu >>> General OpenID discussions relating to Europe >>> general >>> OpenID General Discussion >>> legal >>> Legal discussion around OpenID >>> marketing >>> OpenID marketing >>> security >>> Discussion around security and anti-phishing tactics >>> specs >>> OpenID Specifications Discussions >>> specs-council >>> Specifications Council >>> Specs-cx >>> Contract Exchange for dynamic exchange of legal contract among the parties. >>> specs-pape >>> PAPE specification mailing list >>> Specs-ui >>> User Interface Working Group Specs list >>> user-experience >>> OpenID user experience >>> >>> I’d like to see us have the following to start. We can add/delete/modify >>> as necessary as the Committees come up to speed and determine what their >>> respective needs are. >>> >>> · Board >>> · Board Private >>> · Executive Committee (new) >>> · General >>> · Adoption (if we can migrate the Marketing and User Experience >>> lists over to this list, that would be great, if not we’ll just let sit >>> dormant unless/until the Adoption Committee requests them) >>> · Government (new) >>> · Security >>> · Technology (new) >>> · Legal >>> · International Outreach (new) >>> · Certification (new) >>> >>> Are people actively using EU? If so, we should roll that into >>> International Outreach unless the International Outreach Committee wants to >>> keep this separate list. >>> >>> Will leave it to the Technical Committee to determine what lists they want >>> (specs, specs-council, specs-cx, etc.) >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Brian >>> ___________ >>> >>> Brian Kissel >>> [email protected] >>> CEO - JanRain, Inc. >>> 519 SW 3rd Ave. Suite 600 Portland, OR 97204 >>> >>> Mobile: 503.342.2668 | Fax: 503.296.5502 >>> Twitter: @rpxnow and @janrain >>> Facebook: www.facebook.com/rpxnow >>> >>> Increase registrations, engage users, and grow your brand with RPX. 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