[NCUC E-team] Gandi Admin contact, certificates

[Brenden Kuerbis]

On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Tapani Tarvainen
<ncuc at tapani.tarvainen.info> wrote:
> I am still the Administrative Contact for ncuc.org at Gandi.
> I think it would be a good idea and this would be a good time to
> transfer that function to Pranesh. Among other things it'd allow him
> to manage certificates there.
>
> Any objections?
>

Nope. Thanks for the reminder Tapani.  Pranesh, please send me your
Gandi handle and I'll add you as Administrative (and I guess Technical
too?) contact.

-- Brenden



> - All technical functions related to the domain can be
> done by any of Owner (Brenden), Admin Contact (now me)
> and Technical Contact (now Wilson). The primary difference
> is that Admin and Owner can change other roles but Tech cannot,
> and ownership carries some legal significance.
> Billing contact can only pay bills.
>
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 11:21:28AM -0500, Brenden Kuerbis (bkuerbis at internetgovernance.org) wrote:
>
>> I have no preference, but I believe Tapani suggested the Gandi cert.
>> We already use them for various other services so it may make things
>> administratively easier.
>
> Yes. I have used (and continue to use) StartSSL as well, and while
> their certificates work as advertized, it is rather obvious they
> are cheaper because of their customer support (or lack thereof).
> Dealing with them requires a level of technical sophistication so
> to speak - no problem for Pranesh obviously enough, but in the future
> it might become necessary for someone less experienced to deal
> with them. And the cost is rather small even with Gandi, especially if
> only 1-3 single-domain certificates are needed (12 euros/year each)
> rather than a wildcard one (€120/year).
>
> --
> Tapani Tarvainen
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