This post follows my post of 23rd September, 'RFD: A Formal Management
Procedure for the scot.* hierarchy'. The original is available from
DejaNews if you missed it at (I hope I get this right):

http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?search=thread&recnum=%3c6ubp8d$puj@caleddon.jasmine.org.uk%3e%231/1&svcclass=dnserver


Summary of discussion:
======================

Ian Peattie <ian@johnrich.demon.co.uk>, Sandy Morton
<atm@sandymillport.demon.co.uk> and Alex Ingram <alex@good1.demon.co.uk>
made detailed suggestions about the composition and functions of the
proposed committee.

Ian Johnston <engs0011@sable.ox.ac.uk> raised the issue of eligibility
to vote.

Craig Cockburn <craig@scot.demon.co.uk> suggested that the period of
discussion be extended to 17th October.

Philip Powell <Philip.Powell@dunelm.org.uk> made a detailed and
generally supportive contribution, adding the suggestion that the UK
Votetakers be asked to supervise the vote.

This summarises the posts that are archived on DejaNews. In total
eight people took part in the discussion.


What happens next
=================

Following Craig's suggestion, this discussion will continue until 17th
October.

It appears thus far that there is rough concensus among those who are
in the least interested in the matter that a committee would be a good
idea. If there is such a concensus it saves us the hassle of a vote,
but in order to test it could I please request that if anyone thinks a
committee to manage the scot.* Usenet hierarchy, or any of the
proposals in this message, are a bad idea say so clearly in a followup
to this post, copied be mail to myself. 

If objections are raised a vote will be needed.  I think that Philip
Powell's suggestion of asking the UK Votetakers to undertake this has
merit, if only because there could be no claims of nationalists
rigging the vote.

If no objections are raised I would propose that a good next step
would be an actual face to face meeting of those of us who are
interested, somewhere central like Stirling. I would suggest that we
should invite Scott Larnach (who has been managing the hierarchy over
the past few years), and Richard Letts (control@usenet.org.uk) to take
part, and that we try to persuade Scotland Online, ScottishTelecom,
the Scottish Software Federation or some such to pay their expenses. I
have taken the liberty of copying this post to Scott and to Richard.

I would propose that the agenda of such a meeting should be to draw up
a clear proposal for a management procedure, which should then be
posted to all (known!)  scot.* groups, and a vote called. 


Conclusion
==========

What is proposed here is a major change from the informal management
of the scot.* hierarchy which has served us well thus far. As such it
will inevitably affect everyone who uses the hierarchy. I would
therefore urge everyone to give the matter some consideration.


-- 
simon@jasmine.org.uk (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon