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[rodney at sabletech.com (Rodney Thayer)]

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In my opinion:

1. it's not worth the cost of determining it's worth doing
2. if it's got things they have not revealed we should assume they haven't
figured them out yet, and we need organization NOW so we should go ahead
on our own.
3. if the insurance boogey man is real then we should buy insurance.  if
we insist on this slavish devotion to MIT (thus rejecting most people
outside 128 at least) then it seems irrelevant as nobody has claimed MIT
requires we have insurance.

At 03:25 PM 2/4/97 EST, you wrote:
>I have some questions about signet.org.
>
>On January 24 I wrote a note describing my impressions of the "Schmooze"
>(actually, I thought it rather a pleasant and informative evening), and my
>unanswered questions about the governance of the organization.
>
>My questions about the relationships between the board of directors and
>the board of management are still unanswered.
>
>We know that the constituent groups each appoint one member to the board
>of management.  There can also be other members.  Who appoints them?
>The board of management?  The board of directors? Anyone else?  What are
the
>numbers of each type of member?
>
>Who gets to vote for the members of the board of directors?  Can there be
>directors appointed other than by regular votes, and how? e.g. if the
>directors were elected by the individual members, could other directors be
>elected by the constituent groups, or by the board of management, or
co-opted
>by the BOD itself.  Note: if I guessed/recollected wrongly about who
elects
>the BOD, "No" is still not an adequate answer to this whole question.
>
>Were the people we met at Cybersmith's the BOD or the board of management?
>Both?  Are their terms of fixed duration (BOD and Board of Management)? If
>so, how long?  Also, if there is more than one term, how many (current and
>future) members will serve for which terms?  If the terms are not fixed,
what
>is proposed that will happen?
>
>Legally who is reponsible for the actions of the group?  Presumably the
BOD.
>So what does it mean to say that the organization is run by the Board of
>Management?  If there's any conflict, presumably the BOD would have to
>prevail.  The question "what does it mean to say that the organization is
run
>by the Board of Management?" was not intended to be rhetorical.
>
>If not all the answeres are available yet, those that are will be very
>helpful.
>
>I sort of agree that joining signet is probably the best thing to do, but
I
>personally will not support joining an organization whose governance is
not
>revealed to us.
>
>
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