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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=ZH-TW link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>TWCA votes Yes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";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>Jeremy Rowley<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 19, 2015 11:44 PM<br><b>To:</b> CABFPub<br><b>Subject:</b> [cabfpub] Ballot 145 - Operational Existence for Government Entities<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=line874><span lang=EN-US>Ballot 145 - Operational Existence for Government Entities <o:p></o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US><hr size=3 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=line874><span lang=EN-US>Reason <o:p></o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US><hr size=3 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=line874><span lang=EN-US>Because government entities arenˇ¦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 arenˇ¦t fly-by-night scams/phishing entities. With government entities, these same risks are not present as they are created directly by government action. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=line862><span lang=EN-US>Jeremy Rowley of <a href="https://www.cabforum.org/wiki/DigiCert">DigiCert</a> made the following motion, which was endorsed by Rich Smith of Comodo and Cecilia Kam of Symantec. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US><hr size=3 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=line874><span lang=EN-US>Motion begins <o:p></o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US><hr size=3 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=line874><span lang=EN-US>Effective immediately, section 11.6.1 is modified as follows: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=line874><span lang=EN-US>11.6.1 Verification Requirements. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=line862><span lang=EN-US>The 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.<u> <span class=u>The CA MAY rely on its verification of a Government Entityˇ¦s legal existence under Section 11.2 as verification of a Government Entityˇ¦s operational existence</span>. </u><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US><hr size=3 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=line874><span lang=EN-US>Motion Ends <o:p></o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US><hr size=3 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=line874><span lang=EN-US>The review period for this ballot shall commence at 2200 UTC on 19 Feb 2015, and will close at 2200 UTC on 26 Feb 2015. Unless the motion is withdrawn during the review period, the voting period will start immediately thereafter and will close at 2200 UTC on 5 Mar 2015. Votes must be cast by posting an on-list reply to this thread. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=line862><span lang=EN-US>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: <a href="https://cabforum.org/members/">https://cabforum.org/members/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=line874><span lang=EN-US>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) membersˇV 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></div></body></html>