On 2025-11-05 05:30, Peter Gutmann wrote: > The problem is that individuals can't be CNAs, which means you'd need to do > something like going through the cost and overhead of setting up a shell > corporation or similar to meet the checkbox requirement that an individual > can't be a CNA but the same individual fronted by a paper entity can. > > Does anyone know what the thinking behind this is? It excludes any OSS > project that doesn't have some entity fronting it from being a CNA. If by > "major" you mean "lots of people involved in the project" then there are > probably entities fronting them but if you mean "lots of users and critical to > Internet operation" then see the famous xkcd cartoon, and that person can't be > a CNA.
I believe that there are no strict requirements to be a non-individual legal entity and that in practice, a somewhat informal "project" can be a CNA. Individuals as CNAs are rare, but here is one: https://www.cve.org/partnerinformation/ListofPartners - Art
