Thanks for the info! I look forward to a future where at least some aspects, like action items, are machine readable and automatically tracked!
Aaron On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 7:28 AM Chris Clements <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Aaron, > > Which led me to wonder why this particular field is required. The only >> explanation that springs to my mind is that the incident reports are being >> consumed by automation of some form. > > > We’re not aware of any automation currently consuming these incident > reports. > > If the purpose of the incident report templates is to allow reports to be >> parsed by machines, it would be useful to state that up-front so that >> reporters know how strictly to abide by the template. If reports are not >> intended to be machine-readable, then I'm curious as to the purpose of that >> Unique ID field. > > > While having these reports be machine-readable is one of our long-term > goals, we’ve not yet begun that journey in earnest. Right now, the CA Owner > CCADB unique ID field intends to allow us to better correlate the CA Owner > and its CCADB records in anticipation of potential future CCADB > integration. This future integration may also result in incident reports > currently disclosed to Bugzilla migrating to a new platform designed > specifically with our community’s needs in mind. > > Also, we’ve encountered instances of similar CA Owner names, yet different > unique IDs in the CCADB (e.g., “Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence > Authority (SDAIA)” CCADB Unique ID: A011197 > <https://ccadb.my.site.com/s/account/0018Z000037IJiYQAW/saudi-data-and-artificial-intelligence-authority-sdaia> > compared to “Government of Saudi Arabia, NIC (SDAIA)” CCADB Unique ID: > A002584 > <https://ccadb.my.site.com/s/account/001o000000rGWl9AAG/government-of-saudi-arabia-nic-sdaia>). > Use of the CCADB Unique ID field helps further disambiguate the involved CA > Owners while promoting clean-up of CCADB data. > > We appreciate the curiosity! > -Chris, on behalf of the CCADB Steering Committee > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM 'Aaron Gable' via CCADB Public < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> On a recent incident report >> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1954861#c6>, it was >> pointed out to me that the "CA Owner CCADB unique ID" field in incident >> reports is supposed to be the six-digit number which CCADB uses internally >> to identify CA owners. >> >> I freely admit that I have never noticed this CCADB field before. Since I >> wasn't even aware of its existence, I naively assumed that the field in the >> incident report was referring to the "CA Owner Name", i.e. the same value >> requested in other CCADB submissions such as the Self-Audit Spreadsheet. >> >> Which led me to wonder why this particular field is required. The only >> explanation that springs to my mind is that the incident reports are being >> consumed by automation of some form. >> >> But if incident reports are being consumed by automation, that raises a >> whole host of other questions. For example, in that same incident report, >> we listed some of our action items as "Not Started", which is not one of >> the four officially-sanctioned values ("Ongoing", "Complete", "Delayed", or >> "Canceled"). Are those action item states also being parsed by machine >> automation? Does it mess up the automation to use a different status, or >> reorder the columns of a table, or format some text as an H4 instead of >> simply bold? >> >> If the purpose of the incident report templates is to allow reports to be >> parsed by machines, it would be useful to state that up-front so that >> reporters know how strictly to abide by the template. If reports are not >> intended to be machine-readable, then I'm curious as to the purpose of that >> Unique ID field. >> >> Thanks for indulging my curiosity, >> Aaron >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "CCADB Public" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion visit >> https://groups.google.com/a/ccadb.org/d/msgid/public/CAEmnErd55Xc_UV3ndNhi13Aa2nGh74mhTJ2Kmt-5etYLv-GEoA%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/a/ccadb.org/d/msgid/public/CAEmnErd55Xc_UV3ndNhi13Aa2nGh74mhTJ2Kmt-5etYLv-GEoA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CCADB Public" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/a/ccadb.org/d/msgid/public/CAEmnErezBCQ%2BvfDChLKhFnYb47Lu_Ne-RCmjVVeNZGHKxtXz6A%40mail.gmail.com.
