inventory
TS/Nthe desk, described
There are no photographs of the office on this site. Personnel holds one of me and it is reproduced in the margin because a record should say who kept it. The rest is described. The desk is against the wall furthest from the door. On it: a terminal, a telephone with a cord, a tray for the overnight reports, a second tray for memos awaiting signature, and a laminated card with the seeds table printed on it so that I do not have to open this site to derive an address. Behind the desk: four cabinets. The first holds the printed memos, one per folder, in date order. The second holds printed batch reports, one per day. The third holds the rate sheet history and every change memo.1 The fourth is locked and holds the operator key's hardware and the envelope for its successor.2 The window faces the car park. The clock is analogue and is set against the cluster's block time each Monday. That is the whole room. A photograph would show you less.
inventory of the desk
| ITEM | PURPOSE | KEPT WHERE |
|---|---|---|
| terminal | reading the cluster and running the batch | on the desk |
| telephone | the helpdesk's only off-chain channel, which is not used | on the desk |
| overnight tray | batch reports awaiting filing | on the desk |
| signature tray | memos awaiting signature | on the desk |
| seeds card | deriving addresses by hand | on the desk, laminated |
| memo cabinet | printed memos, one folder each | first cabinet |
| batch cabinet | printed batch reports, one per day | second cabinet |
| rates cabinet | rate sheet history and change memos | third cabinet |
| key cabinet | operator key hardware and successor envelope | fourth cabinet, locked |
| clock | analogue, set against block time weekly | wall above the door |
the files
Every memo on this site is also printed and filed. Every batch report is printed the morning after its batch and filed. Every rate change is printed twice, once as the memo and once as the resulting rate sheet, and filed in the third cabinet.1 Nothing is filed that is not also on the chain or in this site's source, so the cabinets are a copy and not a record. I keep them because a cabinet does not need an RPC, and because there is a kind of person who will believe a folder before they believe a signature, and the desk serves that person too.
- 1. The rate sheet is the set of rate parameters held in the config account and printed, unaltered, on the rate sheet page.
- 2. The operator key is the single key this desk signs with, and what it may do is fixed by the program, not by the desk.