On Friday, May 27, 2016 at 7:23:03 AM UTC-7, Peter Kurrasch wrote:
> I'm opposed to allowing job postings in this forum. The focus should be 
> policy as that is the reason we have gathered here.
> 
> Job postings generally are intended for people in a particular country ‎with 
> a particular level of experience who are actively seeking or receptive to a 
> new job. Sending out off-topic messages that are intended for a subset of a 
> subset of a subset of people here sounds like spam to me.
> 

Policy and engineering are often intertwined - especially in the CA
space. Our ability to enact meaningful policies that protect users is
often directly correlated to CAs (and site operators) abilities to
enact changes. Things like CAA, name constraints, and short-lived
certificates are all prime examples of this - they relate to policies
but require engineering.

I would think that if we want to improve the state of the ecosystem,
we also need to improve the state of the engineering. And it's clear
that this forum, of perhaps all those out there, has the right
confluence of people passionate about policy and interested in the
engineering side.

While I don't know to what extent the broader (lurking) community is
able and receptive to such postings, the active participants are at
least interested in developing a robust approach to user security -
that is why we're here and care about the policies. If they could get
paid for that (as many presently are volunteers), isn't that a win?
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