On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 08:44:01PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > Hello Karl, > > Thank you for going through all the background on this. > > What does that refer to? Did Karl send you something he > did not send to me? I would like to see it.
Karl had sent the following which you received: > That would be ideal, but the CAcert web site does not show signs of > substantial progress. > > CAcert withdrew their request for inclusion in Mozilla in April 2007, > stating they could not satisfactorily complete the required audit. > (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215243#c158) The person > who was the "Auditor" was one Ian Grigg, who then resigned in June 2009 > without the audit being completed. I see no information about a > replacement. > > According to http://wiki.cacert.org/AuditToDo (the place that > http://wiki.cacert.org/InclusionStatus tells you to look), there are > many large-scale tasks that have to be addressed before they can > satisfactorily complete an audit, some of which have been pending for > years. > > A message from Ian dated yesterday > https://lists.cacert.org/wws/arc/cacert-board/2009-09/msg00333.html is > about the structure of the audit organization. The fact that they are > still debating at this level, and more importantly the lack of any > recent information on their status pages, makes me think they are very > far from inclusion. > > After this research today, my feeling is that we will be waiting for > some additional amount of time measured in years, and that there is a > significant probability that they will never succeed. > > If there is more positive news about CAcert inclusion in Mozilla, I > would be glad to hear it. > > karl > > P.S. Jon: it's not about money. Incidentally, we completed the documentation work on the login page, pointing to http://savannah.gnu.org/tls/tutorial/ and http://savannah.gnu.org/tls/ . -- Sylvain
