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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=line867><strong><span style='font-weight:normal'>Based on our discussions over the last two months, I’m thinking that we are currently in a position to discuss something similar to the following as a ballot proposal. (FWIW - this is very similar to what Phill originally proposed back on January 8, 2013.)<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p class=line867><strong>Pre-Ballot 125 - CAA Records</strong> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=line874>Rick Andrews of Symantec made the following motion and Jeremy Rowley of Digicert and Ryan Sleevi of Google have endorsed it: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=line867><strong>Reasons for proposed ballot</strong> RFC 6844 defines a Certification Authority Authorization DNS Resource Record (CAA). A CAA allows a DNS domain name holder to specify the CAs authorized to issue certificates for that domain. Publication of the CAA allows a public Certification Authority to implement additional controls to reduce the risk of unintended certificate mis-issuance. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=line874>The proponents of this ballot believe that this proposed modification to the Baseline Requirements, which gives CAs up to six months to update their CP and/or CPS to state the degree to which they implement CAA, provides all CAs with the flexibility needed to begin implementation of CAA. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=line867><strong>---MOTION BEGINS---</strong> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=line867><strong>Add to Section 4 Definitions, new item:</strong> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=line867><strong>CAA:</strong> From RFC 6844 (<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6844">http:tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6844</a>): “The Certification Authority Authorization (CAA) DNS Resource Record allows a DNS domain name holder to specify the Certification Authorities (CAs) authorized to issue certificates for that domain. Publication of CAA Resource Records allows a public Certification Authority to implement additional controls to reduce the risk of unintended certificate mis-issue.” <o:p></o:p></p><p class=line867><strong>Add a new sentence to the end of Section 8.2.2, Disclosure, as follows:</strong> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=line874>Effective as of [insert date that is six months from Ballot 125 adoption], section 4.4.2 of a CA's Certificate Policy and/or Certification Practice Statement (subsection 4.1 for CA’s still conforming to RFC 2527) shall disclose the CA's policy and/or practices on processing CAA records. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=line874><b>The resulting Section 8.2.2 would read as follows:<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=line874>The CA SHALL publicly disclose its Certificate Policy and/or Certification Practice Statement through an appropriate and readily accessible online means that is available on a 24x7 basis. The CA SHALL publicly disclose its CA business practices to the extent required by the CA’s selected audit scheme (see Section 17.1). The disclosures MUST include all the material required by RFC 2527 or RFC 3647, and MUST be structured in accordance with either RFC 2527 or RFC 3647. <u>Effective as of [insert date that is six months from Ballot 125 adoption], section 4.4.2 of a CA's Certificate Policy and/or Certification Practice Statement (subsection 4.1 for CA’s still conforming to RFC 2527) shall disclose the CA's policy and/or practices on processing CAA records.<o:p></o:p></u></p><p class=line867><strong>---MOTION ENDS---</strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>