On 12/19/2011 2:44 AM, Phil Pennock wrote:
On 2011-12-18 at 12:22 -0800, Lynda wrote:
Wait. What? I've been assigned to arbitration? Yes, I've already sent
them an email, accusing them of insanity (and I meant every word), but
if anyone knows ANYTHING about convincing them that this is not the way
to win friends and influence people, I'd be grateful.
CACert is all about processes, procedures and bureaucracy.
I think I was aware of this. Back in 2006, there were many people that
had been waiting for whoever it was (at the time) in AussieLand to
certify their paperwork (as I recall).
Part of the issue is that if you've issued points to someone else,
acting as an assurer, then you have legal liability for the attestation
(including financial liability of something like $1k if someone
challenges points issued and you can't provide the paperwork to show
that you took due care is issuing points). Thus you need to remain
reachable. If you decide to not be reachable, they probably need to do
something like revoke all assurance points you've issued. I don't know
for sure, but the details will be somewhere in the documentation.
Well, that's the sad part. It isn't that I object to being reachable,
and if there were sending out an email once a year as a health check to
certify that my email was still good, that'd be fine. It's the sudden
mailing list that I'm objecting to. I wouldn't care at all about the
data (although, to my knowledge, zero of the people for whom I signed
are still interested in playing).
Using CACert is not like PGP. In effect, you're taking on the duties of
a notary public, but without any major upsides. Except that it does
provide for a web-of-trust for CA identity assurance, so I've stuck with
it and issued points, and kept the relevant paperwork safely filed, as
required, etc. Dear $deity, the mailing-list is full of wannabe-wonks
though.
I believe that this is true in general. I've *seen* the OpenBSD folks in
action, and then there's those fun Debian (it's GNU/Linux or else) guys.
It's one of the things I like about the LOPSA folks; nice broad range of
people, and it seems there's nearly always someone that will step up to
help others with problems.
Thanks very much for the response. I do feel a bit better.
--
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always
been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread
winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the
false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good
as your knowledge." (Isaac Asimov)
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