Policy-Discussion

[Werner Dworak <werner.dworak AT cacert.org>]

Hello Ian and all,

> For DRP I (personally) believe that it has reached a good position. 
> In the meantime, there are efforts afoot to rewrite DRP from scratch.

Then we should wait until Philipp is ready.

> So, again from my perspective, any other issues with DRP might be best
> spent on that effort.

Indeed.

> In the alternate, what else is more pressing?

"Pressing" is relative. According to

https://bugs.cacert.org/view.php?id=1009
0001009: Exchange OA policy in the WebDB with the one in SVN (rev
p20080401.1)
https://bugs.cacert.org/view.php?id=1130
0001130: Replace DisputeResolutionPolicy.html with rev p20121213
https://bugs.cacert.org/view.php?id=1131
0001131: Rename PolicyOnPolicy.php to .html (read to the end, all
important policies are concerned)

some policies have been renamed, moved or exchanged. These changes of
name or location should be reflected in all references to these policies
in other policies or regulations.

Then https://bugs.cacert.org/view.php?id=941
0000941: Policy Repository Migration is running and we could prepare it.

Then the "Policy Non-Related Persons -- Disclaimer and Licence
(NRP-DaL)" has been replaced by the "Root Distribution License (RDL)".
So in all Policies and other regulations every reference to the Policy
"Non-Related Persons -- Disclaimer and Licence" or "NRP-DaL" should be
replaced by "Root Distribution License" or "RDL". At some places a
simple replacement is not possible or not sufficient but some more
changes are required to adapt it to the new situation.

But all of the above changes I regard as harmless. So the question
arises, if we need a separate vote for every policy or if we can combine
several or all policies in one single vote. If we only do those
editorial changes and nothing more, this could be possible. Of course if
we go one step further and do real changes of the contents, we need
separate votes.

> CCA needs a big cleanup, and it has a lot of messy bits in the WIP on svn.

There I suggest we do two separate runs. In the first run we do mainly
or only editorial changes like adaption of references to new policies
(like RDL) or new names or locations or update some wording. In the
second run we do major changes that affect the real contents.

> Also, Organisation Assurance Policy is suffering from not having been
> reviewed in a long time.  It was our "earliest" policy from the 2007
> era, and its age shows.

Indeed. But there the Organisation Assurance Officer Marcus asked me to
defer it a little. At present he has some more urgent projects running.

Kind regards, Werner

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