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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Comodo votes ‘Yes’ to Ballot 141.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Robin Alden<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> public-bounces@cabforum.org [mailto:public-bounces@cabforum.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>kirk_hall@trendmicro.com<br><b>Sent:</b> 12 January 2015 16:56<br><b>To:</b> CABFPub (public@cabforum.org)<br><b>Subject:</b> [cabfpub] Corrected dates - Ballot 141 – Elimination of EV Insurance Requirement; Financial Responsibility for Mis-Issued Certificates<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>As Dean has stated, I included the right dates but wrong days in the reposted ballot. The corrected dates/days are shown below.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Voting on both ballots begins today (Monday) at 2:00 pm Pacific, 5:00 pm Eastern time (2200 UTC), and ends at the same time next Monday, Jan. 19.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Bradley Hand ITC";color:#0F243E'>Kirk R. Hall<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Operations Director, Trust Services<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Trend Micro<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>+1.503.753.3088<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=line867 style='background:white'><strong><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Ballot 141 – Elimination of EV Insurance Requirement; Financial Responsibility for Mis-Issued Certificates</span></strong><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=line874 style='background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>The following motion has been proposed by Kirk Hall of Trend Micro and endorsed by Robin Alden of Comodo and Dean Coclin of Symantec.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=line867 style='background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><strong><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Purpose</span></strong><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=line862 style='background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>The existing insurance requirements of EV Guidelines Section 8.4 were intended to help assure the public that CAs would be financially responsible, but the requirements for Commercial General Liability and Professional Liability / Errors & Omissions insurance are not well suited for this purpose and do not apply to DV and OV certificates.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=line874 style='background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>The current insurance requirements should be replaced by other, more effective financial responsibility requirements that are more directly focused on financial responsibility for potential harm to subscribers and relying parties from mis-issued certificates of all types. At present, CAs are permitted to limit their potential liability to subscribers and relying parties to $2,000 per EV certificate under EV Guidelines Section 18 and $0 per DV and OV certificate under Baseline Requirements Section 18.1.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=line874 style='background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>This ballot (1) deletes the current EV insurance requirements at EV Guidelines Section 8.4, and (2) amends the EV Guidelines and the Baseline Requirements so that CAs are permitted to limit their potential liability to subscribers and relying parties to $10,000 per EV certificate, $5,000 per OV certificate, and $2,000 per OV certificate. This ballot does not otherwise change whatever legal liability a CA would or would not have for its certificates under applicable law.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=line874 style='background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>-- MOTION BEGINS --<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=line874 style='background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>1. EV Guideline 8.4 is deleted.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=line874 style='background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>2. EV Guideline Section 18 is amended to read as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=line867 style='background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><strong><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>18. Liability and Indemnification</span></strong><span class=apple-converted-space><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>CAs MAY limit their liability as described in Section 18 of the Baseline Requirements except that a CA MAY NOT limit its liability to Subscribers or Relying Parties for legally recognized and provable claims to a monetary amount less than<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><span class=strike><s>two</s></span><span class=apple-converted-space> </span><span class=u><u>ten</u></span><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>thousand US dollars per Subscriber or Relying Party per EV Certificate.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=line874 style='background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>A CA's indemnification obligations and a Root CA’s obligations with respect to subordinate CAs are set forth in the Baseline Requirements.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=line874 style='background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>3. Baseline Requirements Section 18.1 is amended to read as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=line867 style='background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><strong><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>18.1 Liability to Subscribers and Relying Parties</span></strong><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=line862 style='background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>If the CA has issued and managed the Certificate in compliance with these Requirements and its Certificate Policy and/or Certification Practice Statement, the CA MAY disclaim liability to the Certificate Beneficiaries or any other third parties for any losses suffered as a result of use or reliance on such Certificate beyond those specified in the CA's Certificate Policy and/or Certification Practice Statement. If the CA has not issued or managed the Certificate in compliance with these Requirements and its Certificate Policy and/or Certification Practice Statement, the CA MAY seek to limit its liability to the Subscriber and to Relying Parties, regardless of the cause of action or legal theory involved, for any and all claims, losses or damages suffered as a result of the use or reliance on such Certificate by any appropriate means that the CA desires. If the CA chooses to limit its liability for Certificates that are not issued or managed in compliance with these Requirements or its Certificate Policy and/or Certification Practice Statement, then the CA SHALL include the limitations on liability in the CA’s Certificate Policy and/or Certification Practice Statement.<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><span class=u><u>Notwithstanding the foregoing, a CA MAY NOT limit its liability to Subscribers or Relying Parties for legally recognized and provable claims to a monetary amount less than two thousand US dollars per Subscriber or Relying Party per DV Certificate or less than five thousand US dollars per Subscriber or Relying Party per OV Certificate.</u></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=line874 style='background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>-- MOTION ENDS --<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=line874 style='background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>The review period for this ballot shall commence at 2200 UTC on Monday, 5 January 2015, and will close at 2200 UTC on Monday, 12 January 2015. Unless the motion is withdrawn during the review period, the voting period will start immediately thereafter and will close at 2200 UTC on Monday, 19 January 2015. Votes must be cast by posting an on-list reply to this thread.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=line862 style='background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>A vote in favor of the motion must indicate a clear 'yes' in the response. A vote against must indicate a clear 'no' in the response. A vote to abstain must indicate a clear 'abstain' in the response. Unclear responses will not be counted. The latest vote received from any representative of a voting member before the close of the voting period will be counted. Voting members are listed here:<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="https://cabforum.org/members/"><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>https://cabforum.org/members/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=line874 style='background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>In order for the motion to be adopted, two thirds or more of the votes cast by members in the CA category and greater than 50% of the votes cast by members in the browser category must be in favor. Quorum is currently nine (9) members– at least nine members must participate in the ballot, either by voting in favor, voting against, or abstaining.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td style='background:white;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>TREND MICRO EMAIL NOTICE<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>The information contained in this email and any attachments is confidential <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>and may be subject to copyright or other intellectual property protection. <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>If you are not the intended recipient, you are not authorized to use or <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>disclose this information, and we request that you notify us by reply mail or<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>telephone and delete the original message from your mail system.<o:p></o:p></pre></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>