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2009 December Update
2009 November Update
New Arbitrators makes their first steps in the Arbitration Team. The backlog of Arbitration cases increases rapidly, after the support blockage seems to be fixed.
The first new Support Engineer starts working in the Support Team, also new people on the Triage team. As working on the backlog of the support mailbox, about 15 new disputes upto now forwarded to the Arbitrations Team to a total of 53 init (23)/running (30) cases. Some diputes filed originaly Jun 2009, Sep 2009
The Draft CPS is now on the main site see on the Blog and the CPS on main Site.
Assurances Program: As of Board motion m20090912.1 and finaly m20090914.2 also the assurances of underaged people (u18) were ceased. A workaround is to follow the PoJAM (WIP) procedure, but a dispute filing is allways possible.
Policy group decide (p20091108) to make IDNs available everyone with some restrictions to minimize homograph risks.
- recruitment of Support Engineers
- relates to the Arbitration - Case Managers - Support discussion
- Support was identified as a bottleneck, now starting try #3 to get people in
see also Board Meeting Agenda 2009-11-15
and Board-Next-Meeting Sunday 2009-11-15 - 21:00 UTC - Input
and Board-Next-Meeting Sunday 2009-11-15 - 21:00 UTC - Input - Reply
and Board-Next-Meeting Sunday 2009-11-15 - 21:00 UTC - Input - another Reply
IanG appointed as temporary Support Officer assisted by u60 see e.g. comma/Support/Team
- (Non-Critical) Infrastructure Projects are advancing, Board has accepted to go for Vienna (Sonance) and Berne one is in preparation (contract needs to be made), the hardware in Berne is ready.
2009 October Update
Ongoing discussion in arbitration mailing list and private discussion about arbitration blockage by the case managers/arbitrators team. Also top on the Agenda - Committee Meeting - 2009-11-15
- Draft document for Case Managers
- Proposals / Tools for Arbitrations enhancements:
- Reminders
- Reporting
- Switch CCA / DRP acceptance to be the default instead of requesting it individualy in init mailing
- CARS - CAcert Assurer Reliable Statement
now added to AssuranceHandbook2 CAcert Assurer Reliable Statement
- affects all Assurers
- relates also to Sysadmins, co-Auditors, usage in the Arbitration process, Events Mgmt
2009 September Update
- All Assurance Special Programs are frozen
2009-09-14 As of Board motions m20090912.1 and finaly m20090914.2 these programs ceased immediately.
2009-09-28 Tverify is now operating under the authority of board motion m20090928.1 (Run Tverify as-is until End Of Life 20091116) and under Assurance Policy. This latter means no issues of points over 50, and the earlier includes some restrictions.
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