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Configuration Control Specification

+ + +Configuration Control Specification Status == work-in-progress

+Creation date: 20091214
+Status: WIP

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1 Introduction

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+The Configuration Control Specification (CCS) controls and tracks those documents, processes and assets which are critical to the business, security and governance of the CAcert operations. +

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+This document is the procedure for CCS. +This document itself is a component of the CCS. +All other documentation and process specified within +is derivative and is ruled by the CCS. +

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2 Documents

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2.1 Controlled Document List

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+This CCS creates a list of Primary or "root" documents: +

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CAcert Official Document number. Abbrev. Name Location Since Comments
COD1 PoP Policy On Policy http://www.cacert.org/policy/PolicyOnPolicy.php p20070822.... covers all documents
COD2 CCS Configuration Control Specification http://www.cacert.org/policy/ConfigurationControlSpecification.php 2010..... this document
COD6 CPS Certification Practice Statement http://www.cacert.org/policy/CertificationPracticeStatement.php p200903xx.... includes Certificate Policies
COD5 PP Privacy Policy http://www.cacert.org/ 20060629 out of date
5 SP Security Policy http://www.cacert.org/policy/SecurityPolicy.php p20090327 .
6 CCA CAcert Community Agreement http://www.cacert.org/policy/CAcertCommunityAgreement.php p20070822... Subscriber Agreement
COD4 NRP-DaL Non-Related Persons -- Disclaimer and Licence http://www.cacert.org/policy/NRPDisclaimerAndLicence.php m20070918.1 Relying Party Agreement
7 3pv-DaL 3rd Party Vendor -- Disclaimer and Licence http://www.cacert.org/policy/3pvDisclaimerAndLicence.php p2010... Distributor Agreement
COD7 DRP Dispute Resolution Policy http://www.cacert.org/policy/DisputeResolutionPolicy.php m20070919.3 .
9 AP Assurance Policy http://www.cacert.org/policy/DisputeResolutionPolicy.php p2010... .
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+Primary Documents may authorise other secondary documents +under the same process (PoP). +Document Officer manages a controlled documents list +containing numbers, locations and versions of all controlled documents. +

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2.2 Change

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+Overall responsibility for change to documents resides with the policy mailgroup, as specified in Policy on Policy. CAcert Inc., board maintains a veto on new policies while in DRAFT. Fully approved documents (POLICY status) are published on the CAcert website at http://www.cacert.org/policy/ in plain HTML format. +

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+Pre-approval work (DRAFT status) and working documents (work-in-progress status) are made available on publically-accessible version management systems (Subversion: http://svn.cacert.org/CAcert/Policies . wiki: http://wiki.cacert.org/wiki/PolicyDrafts ). +

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2.3 Control

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+CAcert policies are required to be owned / transferred to CAcert. See PoP 6.2. +

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3 Hardware

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3.1 Controlled Hardware List

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+Critical systems are defined by Security Policy. +

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3.2 Change

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See Security Policy.

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3.3 Control

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+Control of Hardware is the ultimate responsibility of the Board of CAcert Inc. +The responsibility for acts with hardware is delegated +to Access Engineers and Systems Administrators as per +Security Policy. +The ownership responsibility is delegated by agreement to Oophaga. +

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4 Software

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4.1 Controlled Software List

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+Critical software is defined by Security Policy. +

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4.2 Change

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See Security Policy.

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4.3 Control

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+CAcert owns or requires full control over its code +by means of an approved free and open licence. +Such code must be identified and managed by Software Assessment. +

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+Developers transfer full rights to CAcert +(in a similar fashion to documents), +or organise their contributions under a +proper free and open source code regime, +as approved by Board. +Where code is published +(beyond scope of this document) +care must be taken not to infringe licence conditions. +For example, mingling issues with GPL. +

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+The Software Assessment Team Leader +maintains a registry of assignments +of title or full licence, +and a registry of software under approved open source licences. +

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5 Logs

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5.1 Controlled Logs List

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+Logs are defined by Security Policy. +

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5.2 Changes

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Changes to Hardware and Software are logged according to Security Policy.

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5.3 Archive

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See Security Policy.

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