[Systems] Who should legally hold sugarlabs domains/SSL certs, and who should decide who should hold them?

[Walter Bender]

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Chris Leonard <cjl at laptop.org> wrote:
> On Question One (Who should decide if the domains be held by
> Conservancy in Conservancy's Gandi account.)  I'd like to propose that
> Bernie continue his due diligence on the technical and logistic
> aspects of such a change and provide a recommendation to the SLOBS
> list when he feels he has sufficient information to make a call.  I
> think we could/should rubber-stamp his suggestion by e-mail in short
> order.
>
> On Question Two (Who should be the legal owner of the domains?) I
> would propose that for pragmatic reasons already mentioned it may make
> sense for the domain "owner of record" to be the SFC (although as I
> said, I'm open to counter-argument).  This question could also be
> voted on by the SLOBS via e-mail when Bernie finalizes a technical
> recommendation.
>
> Note:
>
> I am fully committed to open process in the conduct of Sugar Labs
> business, but in this case I think the following circumstances apply.
>
> 1) This just seems unlikely to draw significant input from the
> community in an on-line SLOBS meeting via IRC.
>
> 2) This is exactly the sort of technical and operational administrivia
> that the SLOBs have been elected to address on behalf of the
> community.
>
> 3 ) This will be announced to the community in due course and
> ex-post-facto input invited.
>
> 4) In the unlikely event that community input causes the SLOBs to
> reconsider the actions taken, none of these steps are irreversible or
> would result in "sunk costs", no harm, no foul.
>
> 5) We really don't need a community referendum on our DNS lookup
> tables or certificate supplier, openness in this case requires
> notification, not necessarily solicitation of votes.
>
> Those are just my thoughts.

+1

>
> cjl



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Walter Bender
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