[Cscwg-public] Voting Begins Ballot CSC-23: Marking the EV Code Signing Guidelines SUPERCEDED

[Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA)]

Voting begins for ballot CSC-23.


    Purpose of the Ballot


As agreed at the F2F#61 meeting, this is a ballot to mark the 
"Guidelines For The Issuance And Management Of Extended Validation Code 
Signing Certificates" as superceded.

The following motion has been proposed by Dimitris Zacharopoulos of 
HARICA and endorsed by Scott Rea of eMudhra and Martijn Katerbarg of 
Sectigo.


      MOTION BEGINS


Update the EVCS Guidelines v1.4 
<https://cabforum.org/working-groups/code-signing/ev-code-signing-certificate-guidelines/> 
to version 1.5 with the following changes:

In the "Notice to Readers" section, update the second paragraph to state:

"*The Code Signing Working Group considers this document SUPERCEDED as 
of September 2, 2020. CAs SHOULD NOT use this standard but instead 
SHOULD use the "Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of 
Publicly‐Trusted Code Signing Certificates" that has incorporated and 
improved requirements related to Extended Validation (EV) Code Signing 
Certificates.*"

Update section 17.1 to state the following:

"*As this document is marked SUPERCEDED, CAs SHOULD NOT be audited 
against this standard. *"


      MOTION ENDS


The procedure for this ballot is as follows:

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	*Start time (8:00 UTC)* 	*End time (8:00 UTC)*
Discussion (at least 7 days) 	2024-03-11 	2024-03-18
Expected Vote for approval (7 days) 	2024-03-19
	2024-03-26
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