Re: [pki-survey] [Fwd: Re: PKI Survey Subcommittee]

[Steve Hanna <steve.hanna@sun.com>]

Good comments, Peter.

I completely agree that we should decide on the survey
objectives and sample before we draft the survey. When
you say survey objectives and sample, is that roughly
the same as goals and target audience (which I listed in
item 1) below)?

Also, I agree that we should decide on a timeline and
that we should review the objectives, sample, and timeline
with the PKI TC before proceeding. In preparing the
timeline, we will probably need to have some plan for
how the survey will be implemented (by web or telephone,
who will make phone calls if by phone, who will perform
analysis, etc.). So I have added that in.

It would be nice to also have a proposed budget before
going to the PKI TC, but I don't think that's realistic
if we are going to aim for TC review and approval at the
April 16 PKI TC meeting. So I'm including that later,
before we get PKI SC approval.

Here's what I have now:

1) Agree on the survey objectives and sample (target
   audience), implementation plan, and possible timeline.

2) Verify with PKI TC.

3) Decide on help needed for effort. Get several estimates,
   draw up budget, and seek funding from PKI Steering Committee.

4) Prepare rough draft for the survey and get feedback.

5) Prepare final survey

6) Administer survey to respondents

7) Analyze results of survey

Please let me know if you have any comments on this.
Otherwise, I'll proceed to draft the objectives and
sample.

Thanks,

Steve

Peter Doyle wrote:
> 
> Steve,
> It looks right to me, except you should add in the requirement to agree
> timelines for the survey.
> 
> I don't think we should draft the survey instrument, until we draft the
> survey objectives and sample.
> The high-level aim is to determine the primary obstacles to PKI deployment,
> but how do we want to reflect that by geography, industry, business
> vs.technical, those who have PKI vs. those who don't, vendors vs. users vs.
> analysts vs. integrators, etc.
> 
> Should we put forward a proposal on this to the general TC for go-ahead?
> 
> Regards,
> Peter
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Hanna [mailto:steve.hanna@sun.com]
> Sent: 31 March 2003 23:36
> To: PKI TC Survey SC
> Subject: [pki-survey] [Fwd: Re: PKI Survey Subcommittee]
> 
> I sent this out a week ago and I haven't heard anything
> back from either of you. I don't want to push, but I'd
> like to get this survey task moving. Does the task list
> below look OK to you?
> 
> One reason why I want to get this moving is that I will
> be speaking at the Internet 2 Members Meeting on April 9.
> I'd like to mention this effort there and invite people
> to contact me if they would like to participate. There
> are lots of folks there who are using PKI, have tried to
> use PKI, etc. But I won't mention the effort unless we
> have *at least* agreed on what we're planning to do!
> 
> If we can make more progress (like getting the survey
> drafted), that would be great. I have a first draft that
> I'd be glad to send around, but I won't move on this
> until I get some positive responses from you two.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Steve
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: PKI Survey Subcommittee
> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:29:06 -0500
> From: Steve Hanna <steve.hanna@sun.com>
> To: pki-survey@lists.oasis-open.org
> References:
> <B15225F53DF1D411B80B0002A5097D9F8637CA@irlms02.ie.baltimore.com>
> 
> OK. I have added the charter to our subcommittee's home
> page (http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/pki-survey).
> 
> In order to complete our charter, I suggest that we undertake
> the following work items:
> 
> 1) Agree on the goals, target audience, and rough outline
>    for this survey
> 
> 2) Determine whether we will need help with later work items.
>    If so, decide what help will be needed and determine whether
>    we can get this help for free. If not, get several estimates
>    and seek funding from PKI Steering Committee.
> 
> 3) Prepare final survey
> 
> 4) Administer survey to respondents
> 
> 5) Analyze results of survey
> 
> Does that look about right? Any suggestions? Changes?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Steve
> 
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