Policy-Discussion

[Bernhard Froehlich <ted AT convey.de>]

Teus Hagen schrieb:
> Question: can an assured organisation (so any employee of that
> organisation with the task: do assurances)  do CAcert assurances?
>
> In general when the word "assurer" or "assurances" are used, generally
> this is meant in the context of "*individual* assurances".
> For this there is the individual assurance policy (Assurance Policy and
> Assurance Manual and Assurance Challenge) in place. Even the CAcert
> Community Agreement is originally discussed with "individual
> members/assurance" in mind.
>
> One can write in some policy paragraphs to enable assured organisation
> to do CAcert assurances (individual and organisation), ie an Assurer can
> be an organisation.
> There are quite some good arguments for doing so. Sam mentioned several.
> However the control of assurances done by organisations is imo more
> complex as well CAcert needs to define quite some "policies" or
> practical rules for this. Ie quite some work.
>
> My suggestion is to stay for this moment to the current situation: an
> Assurer is an *individual* Community Member who has at least 100
> Assurance Points and has passed the Assurer Challenge.
>   
Agreed by me. At least gives us some time to let the implications of 
"assurance by organisation" sink in a bit...

Ted
;)

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