User:Mstone/Commentaries/Infrastructure 1

Here are some proposed requirements for a software system and procedure for communal maintenance of infrastructure:

Data integrity

It should be possible to verify the integrity of reference documentation on an independent system booted from read-only media.

Timely access

Failures of otherwise critical pieces of OLPC infrastructure should not inhibit timely read or write access to the reference documentation.

Credential rotation

When people leave the VIG, it should be easy to remove their access to secrets created after their exit.

If people ever leave the VIG non-amicably, it should be possible to quickly update important secrets throughout the OLPC infrastructure.

Publishability

Secrets should be carefully separated from public knowledge (e.g. with encryption or quarantine) so that everything else can be published.