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Committee Meeting 2026-09-03 18:00 UTC

The meeting will take place at 18:00 UTC at https://meet.jit.si/cacert

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1. Preliminaries
   1. Chair opens the Committee Meeting

   2. Secretary is making minutes

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

   4. Agree on the 1. Oct. 2026, 18:00 UTC as date for the next committee meeting. Check the time!!! (Following date probably, 5. Nov 2026)

2. Association
   1. AGM
3. Business
   1. Certificate generation and renew (the generator is renunning, but....)
   2. Vote about COD 6 - what is still missing?
   3. other services not running (see below**)
      1. what is broken?
      2. how to bring it back?
      3. who?
   4. other points, you think they are important for September
   5. what can/should we push for later (OIDC communication, .....)
4. Question Time

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

5. Closing

1. on hold (for later this year)
   1. Infrastructure: (Dirk)

      1. Start thinking about planning when to do things about new roots, so we are prepared several years in advance, as no certs should have a end-date after any root certificates. Also take a look at the old Escrow article. https://wiki.cacert.org/Roots/EscrowAndRecovery

   2. Remote Assurance (Brian)

      1. Creation of remote assurance sub committee (RASC) on the hold until Eva is available for the policy. Secretary got in touch with Eva on Oct. 12.
         "Users Requests, summarized." added by Aleš a) need for a distant assurance (no assurers, no TTP possibility in their country); b) need for the write access to our Wiki.

1. 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. obsolete / started / waiting for available time

   • push OrgA (Guy)
   • expand PR (Alex cannot do this, wants to hand over)

   • delivering the OpenID Connect integration, for which CAcert is funded by the RIPE NCC.

   • expand background check

   • remote assurance, if accepted by the community;

   • simplify the certificate creation (this enables the start of various projects from the pipeline)

   • software development and testing

   • New CSR software

   • support SecureU (find an active board member for them in Germany)

2. Not to forget: Staffing the teams
   1. Applicants to the Infrastructure team
   2. Applicants to the Development team
   3. Applicant to the Critical team

1. 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 (Some of this will be met with 1551 ) needs review

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

   3. Issue 1444: PHP - Brian needs review

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

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 Committee meeting - 2026-09-03

Present, by alphabetical order: Aleš, Brian, Etienne, Kim; guest: Alex

Opening

1.1. The Committee Meeting is opened by Brian.

1.2. The secretary is taking the minutes.

1.3. No other agenda items found at the mailinglists and similar channels.

1.4. The committee agrees on the 1. Oct 2026, 18:00 UTC as date for the next committee meeting. (Following date probably 5. Nov 2026)

Business

2.1. Association: The Secretary will inform the members of the association about the date, update the website (Agenda, etc.) and get in touch with the teams for team reports. 3.1. Certificate generation and renew (the generator is renunning, but....): As those responsible did not attend the meeting and various personal obstacles that had arisen over the summer have now been resolved, we assume that the systems are up and running again or will be back in operation in the coming days. 3.2. Vote about COD 6 - what is still missing?: Kim and Etienne are raring to go, but are still waiting for confirmation that the infrastructure (mail server) is operating reliably. 3.3. other services not running (see below**): See comment at 3.1.

1. what is broken?
2. how to bring it back?
3. who?

1. other points: A number of views were exchanged regarding the current state of business, particularly in the area of support.
2. Will be pushed for later: OIDC communication

1. Question Time
   1. none
2. Closing: The president closes the meeting.

Motions

• https://motion.cacert.org/motions/m20260222.1 (minutes jan) Accepted

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