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<div class="WordSection1"><o:p></o:p><b>Ballot 204: Forbid DTPs
from doing Domain/IP Ownership Validation<br>
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<b>Purpose of Ballot: </b>At the moment, CAs are permitted to
delegate the process of domain and IP address validation.
However, permitting such delegations is problematic due to the
way audits work - the auditing of such work may or may not be
required and, if it is, those audit documents may not make it
back to root programs for consideration. Although the audit
situation also needs fixing, domain validation is an important
enough component of a CA's core competencies that it seems
wiser to remove it from the larger problem and forbid its
delegation. The purpose of this ballot is to ensure that CAs
or their Affiliates are always the ones performing domain/IP
address ownership validation for certificates that CA is
responsible for.<br>
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following motion has been proposed by Gervase Markham of
Mozilla and endorsed by Ryan Sleevi of Google and Mike Reilly
of Microsoft:<br>
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<pre wrap="">This motion modifies the Baseline Requirements.
0) In section 1.6.1, augment the definition of "Delegated Third Party" as follows:
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<p>Delegated Third Party: A natural person or Legal Entity that
is not the CA<b>, and whose activities are not within the
scope of the appropriate CA audits,</b> but is authorized by
the CA to assist in the Certificate Management Process by
performing or fulfilling one or more of the CA requirements
found herein.</p>
1) In section 1.3.2, replace the following sentence:
<pre wrap="">"The CA MAY delegate the performance of all, or any part, of Section 3.2 requirements to a Delegated Third Party, provided that the process as a whole fulfills all of the requirements of Section 3.2."
with:
"With the exception of sections 3.2.2.4 and 3.2.2.5, the CA MAY delegate the performance of all, or any part, of Section 3.2 requirements to a Delegated Third Party, provided that the process as a whole fulfills all of the requirements of Section 3.2."
2) In sections 3.2.2.4, replace the paragraph beginning "The CA SHALL confirm that" with the following:
"The CA SHALL confirm that, as of the date the Certificate issues, the CA has validated each Fully‐Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) listed in the Certificate using at least one of the methods listed below, or is within the Domain Namespace of a Fully-Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) that has been validated using at least one of the methods listed below (not including the method defined in section 3.2.2.4.8)."
3) In section 3.2.2.4.6, remove the words "or Delegated Third Party".
4) In section 3.2.2.4.11 (if still present in the text at the time the ballot passes), replace the following text:
"either the CA or a Delegated Third Party"
with:
"the CA"
5) In section 8.4, remove the paragraph beginning: "If a Delegated Third Party is not currently audited...".
6) In section 8.4, replace the following text:
"If the CA is not using one of the above procedures and the Delegated Third Party is not an Enterprise RA, then"
with:
"For Delegated Third Parties which are not Enterprise RAs, ".
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<p class="line874" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">The procedure
for approval of this Final Maintenance Guideline ballot is
as follows:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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June<br>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:Calibri">Vote for
approval (7 days)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:Calibri">If vote
approves ballot: Review Period (Chair to send Review
Notice) (30 days). </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:Calibri">If
Exclusion Notice(s) filed, ballot approval is
rescinded and PAG to be created.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:Calibri">If no
Exclusion Notices filed, ballot becomes effective at
end of Review Period.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="line874" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">From Bylaw 2.3:
If the Draft Guideline Ballot is proposing a Final
Maintenance Guideline, such ballot will include a redline or
comparison showing the set of changes from the Final
Guideline section(s) intended to become a Final Maintenance
Guideline, and need not include a copy of the full set of
guidelines. Such redline or comparison shall be made
against the Final Guideline section(s) as they exist at the
time a ballot is proposed, and need not take into
consideration other ballots that may be proposed
subsequently, except as provided in Bylaw Section 2.3(j).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">Votes must be
cast by posting an on-list reply to this thread on the
Public list. 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><font color="#000000"><a
href="https://cabforum.org/members/"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">https://cabforum.org/members/</span></a></font><span
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<p class="MsoNormal">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. <span
style="background:white">Quorum is shown on CA/Browser Forum
wiki. Under Bylaw 2.2(g), at least the required quorum
number must participate in the ballot for the ballot to be
valid, either by voting in favor, voting against, or
abstaining.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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