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Committee Meeting 2026-10-01 18:00 UTC

The meeting will take place at 18:00 UTC at https://meet.jit.si/cacert If you do not have audio channel, you may try 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

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1. Preliminaries
   1. Chair opens the Committee Meeting

   2. Secretary is making minutes

   3. Accept minutes from 2. Aug 2026 "I move to accept the minutes of the committee meeting of 2nd of Aug 2026."

   4. Accept minutes from 3. Sept 2026 "I move to accept the minutes of the committee meeting of 3rd of Sept 2026."

   5. 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.

   6. Agree on the 5. Nov 2026, 18:00 UTC as date for the next committee meeting. Check the time!!! (Following date probably, 3. Dec 2026)

2. Association

   1. Secretary: update regularly https://wiki.cacert.org/AGM/Next

   2. Teams: Team reports: https://wiki.cacert.org/AGM/Next

3. Business
   1. Certificate generation and renew (the generator is running)
   2. Vote about COD 6 - what is still missing?
      1. List server running?
      2. pre-info from secretary (ready, needed?)
      3. introduction (ready? to be sent by whom? when?)
   3. OIDC

      1. (Reading https://wiki.cacert.org/CAcertOpenIDConnect -> ready for translations?)

      2. brain storming for communication / PR: gathering ideas for communicating about OIDC (content, channels and finances)
   4. Spreading tasks more widely – which ones? internal/external
   5. services not running (CATS, wiki y/n?, others?)
      1. what is broken? how to bring it back? who?
   6. important points from support/bugs
4. Any other business (board members forgot to ask the secretary to put it on the agenda)
5. Question Time

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

6. 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 - 2026-10-01

Present, by alphabetical order: Egal, Etienne, Kim; guest: Alex; absent: Aleš (health), Brian (business)

1. Preliminaries

1. Vice president opens the Committee Meeting
2. The people present to the meeting sent Aleš the best wishes for a speedy recovery.
3. Secretary is making minutes

4. The minutes of August and September were accepted: https://motion.cacert.org/motions/m20261001.1 https://motion.cacert.org/motions/m20261001.2

5. There is nothing committee relevant to be included.

6. Agree on the 5. Nov 2026, 19:00 UTC as date for the next committee meeting. Please note: We are changing the UTC time that the meeting remains in Europe and Northern America at the same time. Check the time!!! (Following date probably, 3. Dec 2026) https://motion.cacert.org/motions/m20261001.3

1. Association

   1. The secretary is updating regularly https://wiki.cacert.org/AGM/Next

   2. The teams are requested to send their team reports: https://wiki.cacert.org/AGM/Next

2. Business
   1. Certificate generation and renewig is running again since August, but the news was not really spread!!
   2. Vote about adapted CPS/COD 6: The list server is running. The secretary will send a pre information, followed by the vote information by Kim. Etienne will share a former PolG Vote Template with him.
   3. OIDC: will be discussed when Brian is with us again.
   4. The be a volunteer at CAcert, a good point to join in are bugs (review, etc.), issue and infra (with Jan) - all this ervices do not need a background check, even if such a check can be done.
   5. services with issues at the moment:
      1. Blog is not linked to WebDB at the moment. Egal will changed it in october.
      2. CATS was out of service for a longer time. Egal knows how to bring CATS back (in october).
      3. Ther is no monitoring at the moment (needed by Jan)
   6. Wiki and the mail servers (list and mail) will be not reachable for a short time in the beginning of november Due to construction work at the electricity provider (transition from conventional to new renewable energy). The exactly date will be communicated as soon as possible.
3. Closing

The vice president closes the meeting.

Motions

• https://motion.cacert.org/motions/m20261001.1 (minutes aug) Accepted

• https://motion.cacert.org/motions/m20261001.2 (minutes sep) Accepted

• https://motion.cacert.org/motions/m20261001.3 (time winter) Accepted

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