Re: getting started

Very nicely laid out, Sandro, fully agree! Let's do it!

Sent from my iPhone. Apologies for brevity, misspellings and auto-incorrection.

> On Dec 4, 2015, at 09:34, Sandro Hawke <sandro@hawke.org> wrote:
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> Hi folks, here's very roughly where I think we are and what we want to do, as a very drafty starting point:
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> Sometimes computer systems are owned and operated by one person/group of people  (the "provider") and act on behalf of another person/group of people (the "user").   This includes web hosting providers, cloud storage providers, email providers, and many, many other services.  As people increasingly move their lives online, the opportunity increases for providers to act in ways which subtly or unexpectedly harm users or betray their trust.
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> Some providers are committed to being trustworthy, to being respectful of the autonomy and privacy of the users.
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> The goal of this Community Group is to give those providers a way to distinguish themselves in the market from the broader class of providers.  We plan to do this by producing a standard Terms of Service document that providers can use to show that commitment. For now, we call this document the Respectful Terms of Service (RTOS). In the interest of communicating this concept to a the market, we might use a different term later.   (Also, we don't mean to be saying others are not respectful.  There is room for reasonable people to disagree about what constitutes this kind of respect.)
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> The RTOS will serve as a baseline.  Providers are free to make additional commitments, as long as they do not reduce the commitment.   (Might those go in an SLA?)
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> We'll start with a document that makes sense in layperson English, then materialize that in appropriate legalese for different legal systems (Creative Commons seems like the model for this).
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> How's that sound?
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>    -- Sandro
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