• Case Number: a20100101.1
• Status: closed
• Claimants: Thorsten Bremer

• Respondents: <anonymized>

• Case Manager: MartinGummi

• Former Case Manager: Thomas Bremer

• Arbitrator: UlrichSchroeter

• Date of arbitration start: 2010-01-16
• Date of ruling: 2010-08-25
• Case closed: 2010-08-26
• Complaint: doublename w/ hyphen mismatch in account
• Relief: TBD

Before: Arbitrator UlrichSchroeter (A), Respondent: <anonymized> (R), Claimant: Thorsten Bremer (C), Case: a20100101.1

History Log

• 2010-01-01 (UlrichSchroeter): added to wiki, request for CM / A

• 2010-01-01 (CM): I'll take care about this case as CM
• 2010-01-01 (A): I'll take care about this case as A
• 2010-01-12 (A): sent init mailing to (C), (R) with CCA / DRP accept request

• 2010-01-12 (R): declares: I've no problem with this change of the firstname of the account as long as my name is anonymized in the arbitration case like in the case a20090618.10. I don't want to get the complete name by googling, which would be very easy since my surname is very uncommon.

• 2010-01-12 (AS1): (FF) regarding case a20100101.1, i had assured (R)
• 2010-01-12 (C): I accept CCA / DRP
• 2010-01-13 (A): intermediate ruling respondents name have to be anonymized
• 2010-01-13 (A): sent notification of intermediate ruling to (R)
• 2010-01-13 (A): resend CCA / DRP accept request to (R)
• 2010-01-16 (R): I accept CCA / DRP
• 2010-06-29 (A): (CM) released, searching a new (CM) (Ted?, Alexander?, Martin?, Hans?)

• 2010-06-29 (MartinGummi): I'll take care about this case as CM

• 2010-06-30 (A): info to former (CM), (C), (R) that the (CM) has been changed
• 2010-06-30 (A): requesting user infos from Support about user account: full name, assurances rcvd
• 2010-06-30 (A): 2nd givenname part missing in online account, rcvd 1 assurance
• 2010-06-30 (A): request to (AS1) for verifying the full usersname

  Assurer #	Assurers name	name matches modification req
  AS1	Dominik G	{+}

• 2010-07-16 (A): reminder to (AS1) sent
• 2010-07-28 (A): 2nd reminder sent to (AS1)
• 2010-08-24 (A): 3rd reminder sent to (AS1)

• 2010-08-24 (AS1): The full name I noted during the face-to-face meeting is: <givenname with hyphen>

Discovery

• PracticeOnNames

  Hans-Peter Fröhlich

  Hans Fröhlich

  The hyphen connects the two names to one single name (at least according to German jurisdiction)....

• Certificates issued after 2009-11-08 (date when CPS became draft) that include the not corrected givenname w/o hyphen have to be revoked.
  • The certs problem on Name changes

    • The CPS comes to draft at Status: DRAFT p20091108

    • If the user has created client certificates, with the not yet corrected name in the account, the certs are probably built up with the wrong name field(s) from online account.

    • CPS 3.1.1. Types of names - Client Certificates. The Subscriber Naming consists of:

      • CN= The common name takes its value from one of:
        • For individual Members, a Name of the Subscriber, as Assured under AP.

Intermediate Ruling

• All proceedings of this arbitration will be published in the CAcert wiki. However all personally identifiable information of the respondent will be anonymized.

Frankfurt/Main Jan 13th, 2010

Execution (Intermediate Ruling)

• 2010-01-12 (A): All (R) name entries on the wiki page a20100101.1 I've anonymized dated Jan 12th, 2010 after receiving (R)'s request.

Ruling

• Support should change (R)'s givenname as requested.
• No assurances should be revoked, as (AS1) could confirm the requested name change

• There is enough evidance over the requested givenname, at least confirmed by two assurers (AS1) and (C) according to AP 2.1

• Certificates issued after 2009-11-08 (date when CPS became draft) that include the not corrected givenname w/o hyphen have to be revoked.

• Intermediate ruling dated January 13th, 2010 follows Privacy Policy 2. Personal information and is hereby confirmed.

Frankfurt/Main, 2010-08-25

Execution

• 2010-08-25 (A): ruling sent to (C), (R), (CM), (AS1)
• 2010-08-25 (A): Support: please change users givenname as requested
• 2010-08-25 (Support): I changed the givenname as requested
• 2010-08-25 (A): (R), please revoke all client certs issued after 2009-11-08 and with the abbreviated givenname w/o hyphen in it
• 2010-08-25 (A): Dear (C), You can now transfer your assurance points over (R)
• 2010-08-26 (R): confirms by CARS, that he never had issued client certs
• 2010-08-26 (A): notified (C), (R), (CM) about close if this case now

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