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<p class="MsoNormal">Entrust votes Yes to ballot CSC-19.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA) via Cscwg-public<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, July 24, 2023 5:02 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> cscwg-public@cabforum.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] [Cscwg-public] Voting Begins for Ballot CSC-19 - Remove TLS BR References<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in">This message begins the voting period for ballot CSC-19.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in">Dimitris.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Purpose of the Ballot</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>This ballot updates the “Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly‐Trusted Code Signing Certificates“ version 3.3
<span class="pl-mh">in order to remove references pointing the Baseline Requirements for Publicly-Trusted TLS Certificates ("TLS BRs"). The main goals of this ballot are to:</span><br>
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<li class="null" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span class="pl-mh">Remove dependencies with the "TLS BRs" that are decided in a different CA/B Forum Working Group</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="null" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span class="pl-mh">Remove ambiguity about which exact requirements are applicable to Code Signing Issuers and Time-stamping Authorities</span><o:p></o:p></li></ol>
<p id="bkmrk-the-following-motion">The following motion has been proposed by Dimitris Zacharopoulos of HARICA and endorsed by Martijn Katerbarg of Sectigo and Tim Hollebeek of Digicert.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0E101A">MOTION BEGINS</span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This ballot updates the “Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly‐Trusted Code Signing Certificates” ("Code Signing Baseline Requirements") based on version 3.3. MODIFY the Code Signing Baseline Requirements as
specified in the following redline: <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/github.com/cabforum/code-signing/pull/16/files*diff-51665fed103b76d89fc3da15cf88817d58602089__;Iw!!FJ-Y8qCqXTj2!fXMokqoGYn0CaN761FEDxT1oLOmU96dLXAqhT6QWnIKNJhJwAfi74d9RTFzCV6lidBF2jhpCRE4hSbXt7hKzQZh49H2I$">
https://github.com/cabforum/code-signing/pull/16/files#diff-51665fed103b76d89fc3da15cf88817d58602089</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">17 July 2023<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">24 July 2023<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">31 July 2023<o:p></o:p></p>
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