[Chapter-delegates] AMS - extremely slow and cumbersome - logs me out while waiting

[Alan Levin]

Hi,

Just my5c  (Eric thanks for the question)

On 13 Apr 2011, at 10:45 PM, Eric Burger wrote:
> I would be interested in specific suggestions, including who will run it, maintain it, and keep it up to date.

I suggest any qualified *nix sysadmin. Ideally one that is familiar with ISOC, and more specifically IETF. IMHO for $235k one could get an excellent highly experienced person who would commit to a 3 year contract.  If one adds the ISOC staff salaries that are associated, I suspect the cost increases. 

Some other successful OSS projects like:
- Asterisk
- Quagga
- MySQL
- Mediawiki
- Openoffice
were all created with smaller budgets or purely volunteer time (ie a good OSS software development company would probably volunteer to provide an initial scope of work in order to get this contract). 

A way forward could be - put out a call for interested parties to put in bids to replicate (and extend) the current functionality in FOSS. Make sure the license is defined and allow for a smallish budget with initial (functional) deliverables - using an object oriented 'rapid / agile' framework. At the same time allow for 10% of the budget to be paid to a third party for QA. 

Sincerely


Alan





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Alan Levin
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