Re: [kFW] Re: Request for comments: Incorporating Kendra Foundation...

[Daniel Harris <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi there David,

Many thanks for your comments. Yes, everyone is going to have to trust 
me to do the right thing. But, I guess, people have trusted me up till 
now to some degree. I hope that by my being open and explaining what I 
am doing at every stage that people will shout as soon as they see 
things going in an undesired direction.

Also, the whole point about Kendra Foundation is to build tools that 
enable people to be more involved in the collaborative design process 
of making Kendra System.

Kendra has only got to where it is because people have supported it and 
made it theirs. If none of the 400 odd people were listing them selves 
nor any of the 20 odd ISPs/CDNs were participating in the network trial 
then Kendra would be nowhere near as impressive as it is.

In terms of not allowing Kendra Foundation to make income from sales 
many people have commented on this and said do I really want to do it 
that way. If it doesn't get any funding or support in kind then that 
means that people don't want to bring Kendra System to reality. If they 
don't want it then fine. I'll go do some painting on a hill somewhere! 
;-) But the fact is that people do want it and what is more the 
industry is heading that way at full speed. Have you read up on MPEG-21 
recently? Very interesting/impressive/inspiring... We're on the right 
track!...
http://mpeg.telecomitalialab.com/documents/from_mpeg-1_to_mpeg-21.htm

Another reason for not wanting to get income from sales is that Kendra 
Foundation has to keep focus. Kendra Foundation's role is not to make 
money but to support Kendra Initiative.

Also, if there was money to be made directly from usage of the Kendra 
System then all Kendra Participants would want a slice, and quite 
rightly so, as without their effort there would be nothing to make 
money from. This is analogous to TCP/IP in that we are not charged to 
speak the language but service providers charge for their services 
built on top of TCP/IP. I we charged a usage fee to speak the Kendra 
language it has much less chance of getting off the ground.

Also, right now I am selling for the sake of an idea/vision. I want to 
keep it that way. I did a good 6 six years of Cerbernet and have come 
to the conclusion that if you have a company which has a role to make 
money then that's what it does and everything else is secondary. And 
all the employees and directors focus on that one task, which is fine 
if the goal's to make money. I am not going to allow Kendra Foundation 
to loose its focus of supporting Kendra Initiative.

Taking your points: On Arts.33, yeh, a director should be able to be 
anywhere as long as you can communicate with them by some practical 
method. For Arts.40-42, yeh again, we need email notices to be valid.

Cheers Daniel

On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 03:26  pm, David Reibel wrote:
> Daniel, the mem and arts look pretty straightforward...