<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">The voting on ballot NS-001 has completed, and the ballot has passed.<br class=""> <br class=""><u class="">Voting Results</u><br class=""><b class="">Certificate Issuers</b><br class="">21 votes total, with no abstentions:<br class=""><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• 21 Yes votes: <b class="">Buypass</b>, <b class="">Certum</b>, <b class="">Chunghwa Telecom</b>, <b class="">Comsign</b>, <b class="">D-TRUST</b>, <b class="">DigiCert</b>, <b class="">Disig</b>, <b class="">eMudhra</b>, <b class="">Entrust</b>, <b class="">GlobalSign</b>, <b class="">GoDaddy</b>, <b class="">HARICA</b>, <b class="">Kamu SM</b>, <b class="">Let's Encrypt / ISRG</b>, <b class="">OISTE</b>, <b class="">Sectigo</b>, <b class="">SecureTrust, <a href="http://SSL.com" class="">SSL.com</a>, SwissSign, Telia, Visa</b><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• 0 No Votes<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• 0 Abstentions<br class=""></div><b class="">Certificate Consumers</b><br class="">5 votes total, with no abstentions:<br class=""><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• 5 Yes votes: <b class="">Apple</b>, <b class="">Google</b>, <b class="">Microsoft</b>, <b class="">Mozilla</b>, <b class="">Opera</b><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• 0 No votes<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• 0 Abstentions<br class=""></div> <br class=""><u class="">Bylaw Requirements</u><br class="">1. Bylaw 2.3(f) requires:<br class=""><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class="">· A "yes" vote by two-thirds of Certificate Issuer votes and by 50%-plus-one of Certificate Consumer votes. Votes to abstain are not counted for this purpose.</blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class="">This requirement was MET for Certificate Issuers and MET for Certificate Consumers.</blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class="">· At least one Certificate Issuer and one Certificate Consumer Member must vote in favor of a ballot for the ballot to be adopted.</blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class="">This requirement was MET.</blockquote><div class=""><br class="">2. Bylaw 2.3(g) requires that a ballot result only be considered valid when “more than half of the number of currently active Members has participated”. Votes to abstain are counted in determining quorum. Half of the currently active members at the start of voting was 17.5, so the quorum was 18 for this ballot.<br class=""></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class="">This requirement was MET.</div></blockquote><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><u class="">IPR Review Period</u></div><div class="">This ballot now enters the IP Rights Review Period to permit members to review the ballot for relevant IP rights issues. As this ballot specified a Final Guideline, the IP Rights Review Period extends 60 days from February 22, 2022 00:00 UTC.</div><div class="">Version 1.7 of the Network and Certificate System Security Requirements can be found here: <a href="https://cabforum.org/wp-content/uploads/CA-Browser-Forum-Network-Security-Guidelines-v1.7.pdf" class="">https://cabforum.org/wp-content/uploads/CA-Browser-Forum-Network-Security-Guidelines-v1.7.pdf</a>.</div></body></html>