Policy-Discussion

["Greg Stark" <gstark AT electrorent.com>]

I vote Aye.
Greg

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> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 12:30 PM
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> Subject: Re: [CAcert-Policy] CPS bugs. Vote please. Colosing date of votes21
> October 12pm UTC
> 
> Peter Williams wrote:
> >
> > Folks are taking technical counsel, on how best to vote, I assume.
> >
> > Or is there a rule that commenting, during the voting period, is
> > suspended? (I’ve seen that before now).
> 
> 
> No, there is no such rule.
> 
> > Where does the vote stand?
> 
> http://wiki.cacert.org/wiki/PolicyDecisions
> 
> So far, 8 votes have been collected as Aye, some interpolating from
> previous claims made.  No Nays.
> 
> Another 3.5 hours :)
> 
> > By the way, the verb confirmed is used as a subprocedure of validation:
> >  checking the subscriber’s claim of a name, and the right to use said ,
> > is ”confirmation”
> 
> OK.
> 
> > From what I recall, this had a basis in legal “acknowledgement”
> > protocols. Acknowledgements are specific types of statements on which
> > one may rely, with specifically limited legal semantics well suited to
> > that “pre-acceptance” phase of the certification process.
> 
> Seems a stretch.  For that to work, all the parties would have to be
> happy with the protocol.  It's not much use telling the victim
> afterwards that "no" means "yes" in the language of the borg, and
> here in clause 93.b(i) of the Federation StarFleet Pilot's Agreement
> it clearly says that when issuing certificates, we talk like the borg...
> 
> iang
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