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<p class="MsoNormal">This is work product from the EV working group. The plan is to ballot this after discussing the proposal on the call next week.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="line867">Because government entities aren’t operating as businesses, they are often not listed with a QIIS, especially immediately after the entity is created by either statute or order. The legal existence of these entities is verifiable through
a QGIS, but this source in many countries (especially Arabic and African countries) does not always list a date of creation of these entities. Operational existence exists to ensure organizations aren’t fly-by-night scams/phishing entities. With government
entities, these same risks are not present as they are created directly by government action.
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<p class="MsoNormal">The following motion is proposed by Jeremy Rowley of DigiCert and endorsed by Rich Smith of Comodo and Cecilia Kam of Symantec.
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<p class="line867"><strong>Ballot 143 – Remove the operational existence requirement for Government Entities.</strong>
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<p class="line874">--Motion Begins -- <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="line874">Effective immediately, section 11.6.1 is modified as follows:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="line874"><b>11.6.1 Verification Requirements <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="line874"><span style="color:#1F497D">T</span>he CA MUST verify that the Applicant has the ability to engage in business by verifying the Applicant's, or Affiliate/Parent/Subsidiary Company's, operational existence<span style="color:#1F497D">.
<u>T</u></span><u>he CA <span style="color:#1F497D">MAY</span> rely on its verification of<span style="color:#1F497D"> a
</span>Government Entity’s legal<span style="color:#1F497D"> existence under Section 11.2 as verification of a Government Entity’s operational existence.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="line874">--Motion Ends -- <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="line874" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The review period for this ballot shall commence at ______________________, and will close at __________________. Unless the motion is withdrawn during the
review period, the voting period will start immediately thereafter and will close at ____________________. Votes must be cast by posting an on-list reply to this thread.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span 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:0in">https://cabforum.org/members/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span 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.
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