Policy-Discussion

[R P Herrold <herrold AT owlriver.com>]

On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, Jens Paul wrote:

> Ian asked me to send my comments again. OK, here we go!
>
> > Hi all!
> >
> > Jens raised the question as to how we resolve really
> > difficult disputes at a trade show.  Should someone have the
> > power to decide?  Should everything stop?  Should the
> > Assurers just argue it out in front of the applicants?

Goodness -- mucking in the details without a Requirements 
document is pretty out of sequence -- If there is an issue, a 
good standing rule of life is 'praise publicly, criticize 
privately' -- There is nothing that would EVER cause me to 
'squabble' publicly when saftely to human life is not at risk. 
The identity of the assurer, and the assurances that person 
grants are all fully tracable -- solve issues out of the 
hearing of 'customers'.

I also read the highly legalistic document appearing in the 
Wiki, at
  http://wiki.cacert.org/wiki/EventOrganisation

and was rather sad that it was not marked as a discussion 
draft -- I certainly do not consider it a statement of CACert 
policy duly adopted, and others reading it were left with that 
impression, and concerned that the FOSDEM appearance could not 
possibly attain that level of formality.

-- Russ Herrold