[Accountability-tf] Mail Subscription and TF membership - To comment until 31 January

Hi all,

Please find below my attempt to answer the questions.

> On 23 Jan 2017, at 20:01, Filiz Yilmaz <koalafil at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> In our last meeting we touched upon on how the mailing should be set
> up but we left this for further discussion on the mailing list.
> 
> Questions are:
> 
> A. Should this mailing list be open to subscription of others who are
> not TF members?
> B. Should this mailing list be receiving posts from those who are not
> TF members?

Well most of you who know me, know that I am a strong proponent of openness. And I also think the TF should be as open and transparent as possible. 

However, I am not quite sure if I see the purpose of having a mailing list that receives posts from people who are not on the list. If you have opinions and thoughts, why would you post but not actually participate in the task force? In my view, if you post to the list, you have joined the conversation and should probably be on the taskforce. 

I don’t have any problems at all with people listening in to the list by subscribing and not posting, but I would also find this a little confusing and not really inline with how this community normally interacts. 

> C. Should the archive of this mailing list be publicly published?

Yes definitely.

> Athina/Antony if there are other questions to be answered to be able
> to decide on the final setup of the mailing list pls chime in.
> 
> There is also another topic about the TF membership invitation which
> we also left to further discussion:
> 
> D. Do we want to keep accepting new members to the TF as they show interest?
> E. If we want to have a cut-off date for accepting new members what
> date should that be?

I think it is reasonable to have a cut-off date, simply because the TF will have a work plan and deadlines, which makes it somewhat hard for someone to join the TF after a few months and contribute constructively. I also think we have advertised it widely enough by now, and that people have had the chance to join if they were interested. 

In my view, a TF is fundamentally different to a working group. In a WG, anyone can join at any time and contribute or oppose what’s being discussed, or even re-open old discussions. A TF has a set timeframe and a clear objective to produce a set of recommendations back to the community. 

“The outcome of a task force is a report with recommendations. The recommendations will be discussed by the RIPE community, and implemented when consensus is reached."

As long as the TF does its work and reports back to the community in a transparent and open way, I believe the community will have enough opportunity to discuss, comment on, object to anything the TF recommends, before any action is taken. 

Kind regards,
Nurani

> 
> I would like to set a deadline to this discussion so we can reach a
> conclusion and move a head accordingly. Please respond until 31
> January.
> 
> Kind regards
> Filiz
> 
>