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Committee Meeting 2022-03-03

The meeting will take place at 20:00 UTC in the IRC channel #board-meeting on the CAcert IRC network.

Feel free to add a business item within the acceptance period of 48 hours or your question to the board below. Non-committee members: the committee may choose to convert any business proposed as a question in the questions section.

Agenda

1. Preliminaries
   1. Chair opens the Committee Meeting

   2. Who is making minutes? (Writing minutes in real time)

   3. Chair asks whether cacert-board-private or cacert-board maillist includes any items that need to be disclosed to Members.

   4. Accept minutes from 03.2.2022 "I move to accept the minutes of the committee meeting of 3rd February 2022."

2. Business

   Acceptance of new business items no later than 48 hours before the start of the committee meeting!

   1. Quick decisions

      1. xxxx "I move that xxxx." (rewording???)

   2. Quick infos

      1. CCA update has been initiated. (ad new IBAN in Feb, review in March, sent in spring after new firewall installed)

      2. Tax exemption: dossier is 99% compiled, expected to be finished in February.

   3. Finance team (Michael)

      1. New ERP: Info: State of affairs

   4. OpenID Connect (Brian) (integration / what is done / what will be done until end of year / Board asks whether there is anything that they can do to assist)

      1. At present, there is a need for people who are willing to edit and create appropriate documentation for various audiences.
   5. Future of secureU e.V. (Discussion)
      1. Motion to designate Dirk Astrath an agent for the Board for the purpose of transferring the Bit Contract from Secure-U to CAcert, Inc.

   6. Background Check (?)

      1. BGC for Kim and Sascha is initated. State of affairs?

   7. New CSR software (Ted)

      1. Brian and Dirk have been looking at possible updates for this software. There appear to be two current options, one from Jan.
   8. Software reviews

      1. xxx (Brian)

      2. Wiki review of https://wiki.cacert.org/engagement (Etienne)

   9. Remote Assurance (Brian)

      1. Relance discussion in policy group
   10. Hardware renewal plan
       1. Who is taking care of this project?
       2. Who will start to write a draft?
3. Question Time

   Questions from CAcert.org community members can be added until beginning of committee meeting! As well questions can be asked at "Question Time", without added question here.

   1. "Question One." added by Your Name Comment: Replace "Question One" by your Question and add your name

      • ..
   2. Closing
      1. Agree on date of the next Committee Meeting: 7. Apr 2022
      2. Agree on the following meeting dates: 5. Mai 2022, 2. June 2022, 7. July 2022, 7. Aug. 2022 (keep date free, can be changed if necessary)
   3. To remember: Goals 2021/2022 (propositions by board 2020/2021) - Each goal needs a responsible person on the board who keeps an eye on it and reports regularly, keeps in touch with the responsible people.
      • push OrgA (Guy)
      • expand PR (Alex cannot do this, wants to hand over)
      • support SecureU (find an active board member for them in Germany)
      • expand background check
      • simplify the certificate creation (this enables the start of various projects from the pipeline)
      • remote assurance, if accepted by the community;
      • software development and testing
      • delivering the OpenID Connect integration, for which CAcert is funded by the RIPE NCC.
   4. Not to forget: Staffing the teams
      1. Applicants to the Infrastructure team
      2. Applicants to the Development team
      3. Applicant to the Critical team
   5. Access to local systems for board members

1. Tasks assigned to Board Members and others

1. Software Team

   1. Issue 1502: Adapt the UI at CAcert.org to deal with the "keygen" feature having been removed in browsers

   2. Issue 1482: Limit validity period of new HTTPS certificates to one year

   3. Issue 1444: PHP - Brian

   4. Issue 1417: Keygen / new CSR software - Bernhard

2. Organisation Assurance
   1. How to relance OrgA? (Guy)
3. Grant applications

   1. Protopype Fund https://prototypefund.de/en/ (mail to SW Board only)

      1. The Prototype Fund is a project of the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). This is for residents of Germany only. We could create a group of people that work on a project for CAcert (with all support of the others in the background). It runs for two more years, every 6 month.
      2. Infra does not see any acute need at the moment, and does not have the capacity to provide qualified support.
      3. There are some ideas for software, but in infra's view there is still a lot of conceptual and preparatory work missing. What Infra could imagine is financing people to carry out a requirements analysis and write a requirements and test specification. This could then be used as a basis for a new implementation of the CAcert software (WebDB, Signer and perhaps other things like CATS). But these are just a few ideas of JanDD and he cannot currently recommend any people who would be suitable for this. Potential candidates would have to deal intensively with the existing software on the one hand and with the underlying policies on the other, and would have to identify a lot of missing information, ask for it and make assumptions for discussion. This requires very good analytical and communication skills and a high level of stamina.

1. Blockchain

   1. see here: https://wiki.cacert.org/Brain/CAcertInc/Committee/MeetingAgendasAndMinutes/2018-03-01/ideas#Blockchain (waiting for answer from IanG)

Minutes

Present

Members of the Committee:

Present, by alphabetical order

• Brian, Etienne, Frédéric, Michael, Sascha(?)

Absent or silent, by alphabetical order

Members of the CAcert community and other guests

• Dirk, Nemunaire(?), Y Nazarov (?)

Committee meeting

1. The commitee takes note of various information according to the agenda.
2. Documentation: Brian has started examining and working on completing the missing items in the code. However, we are also in need of people who would like to help with various portions of documentation to complete the requirements for RIPE. There are several different areas that could be worked upon, including general discussion, administrator manual, user manual, etc. None of these need to be extensive.
3. Secure-u! wants to liquidate this year and hand over the money and machinery to us. Dirk from the Critical Team will prepare this with Mark and report on 7 April.
4. A visit to BIT by CritT will be held in about two weeks. After that, Dirk will visit Mark.
5. Backgroundcheck: Frédéric has taken responsibility for setting up appointments for Peter, Gero, Mathias on the one hand and Bernhard, Jan and Dirk on the other.
6. Next ERP: This topic was reported, as there are other priorities at the moment.

Acceptance of **minutes**

1. Motion to accept minutes from **3.2.2022**

• The minutes of the last meeting are approved.

Logfile

Logfile from meeting 2022-03-03

Motions

• https://motion.cacert.org/motions/m20210806.1

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