<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Apple votes Yes.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Curt<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 22, 2017, at 4:42 AM, Gervase Markham via Public <<a href="mailto:public@cabforum.org" class="">public@cabforum.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<b class="">Ballot 205: Membership-Related Clarifications<br class="">
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<b class="">Purpose of Ballot: </b>The CAB Forum Bylaws define membership
criteria, but don't say what should happen when an existing member
ceases to meet those criteria. This ballot is intended to fix
this, for the avoidance of doubt and uncertainty. It also makes it
clearer that proper recognition of currently-issued certificates
by at least one browser member is a membership requirement, and
adds the definition of "Affiliate" from the IPR policy.<br class="">
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following motion has been proposed by Gervase Markham of Mozilla
and endorsed by Kirk Hall of Entrust Datacard and Curt Spann of
Apple:<br class="">
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MOTION BEGINS --</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal">This
motion changes the CAB Forum Bylaws.<br class="">
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<u class=""> </u><u class=""><b class="">Section 1</b></u><u class=""><b class=""><br class="">
</b></u><br class="">
Add a new section between 2.1 ("Qualifying for Forum Membership")
and the following section, numbering the new section 2.2, and
renumbering following sections appropriately. The new section shall
read:<br class="">
<br class="">
<b class="">2.2 Ending Forum Membership</b><br class="">
<br class="">
Forum Members may resign from the Forum at any time. Resignation
does not prevent a member potentially having continuing obligations,
under the Forum's IPR Policy or any other document.<br class="">
<br class="">
(a) <u class="">Browser</u>: A Browser member's membership will
automatically cease if any of the following become true:<br class="">
<ul class="">
</ul>
<ol class="">
<li class="">it stops providing updates for its membership-qualifying
software product; or <br class="">
</li>
<li class="">six months have elapsed since the last such published update.</li>
</ol>
<ul class="">
</ul>
(b) <u class="">Issuing CA</u> or <u class="">Root CA</u>: An CA member's membership
may be suspended if any of the following become true:<br class="">
<ul class="">
</ul>
<ol class="">
<li class="">it fails to pass its membership-qualifying audit;</li>
<li class="">its membership-qualifying audit is revoked, rescinded or
withdrawn;</li>
<li class="">fifteen months have elapsed since the end of the Audit Period
of its last successful membership-qualifying audit;</li>
<li class="">it stops issuing certificates to Web servers that are openly
accessible from the Internet; or<br class="">
</li>
<li class="">it is no longer the case that its currently-issued
certificates are treated as valid by at least one Browser
member. <br class="">
</li>
</ol>
<ul class="">
</ul>
Any Forum Member who believes one of the above circumstances is true
of a CA Forum Member may report it on the Public Mail List. The
Chair will then investigate, including asking the CA for an
explanation or appropriate documentation. If evidence of continued
qualification for membership is not forthcoming within five working
days, the Chair will announce that the member is suspended, such
announcement to include the clause(s) from the above list under
which the suspension has been made.<br class="">
<br class="">
A suspended CA Forum Member who believes it has now re-met the
membership criteria under the relevant clauses shall post evidence
to the Public Mail List. The Chair will examine the evidence and
unsuspend the member, or not, by public announcement. A CA Forum
Member's membership will automatically cease six months after it
becomes suspended if it has not re-met the membership criteria by
that time.<br class="">
<br class="">
While suspended, CAs may participate in meetings and on the Forum's
discussion lists, but not propose or second ballots or take part in
any form of voting. Votes cast before a member's suspension is
announced will stand.<br class="">
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<u class=""><b class="">Section 2</b></u><u class=""><b class=""><br class="">
</b></u><br class="">
Update both sections 2.1 (a) and (b) to insert words as follows:<br class="">
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"actively issues certificates to Web servers that are openly
accessible from the Internet<u class="">, </u><u class="">such certificates being
treated as valid when</u> using a browser created by a Browser
member."<br class="">
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<u class=""><b class="">Section 3</b></u><u class=""><b class=""><br class="">
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</b></u>Update section 2.2 b) as follows:<br class="">
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Only one vote per Member company shall be accepted; representatives
of <strike class="">corporate affiliates</strike><u class="">Affiliates</u> shall not
vote. <br class="">
<br class="">
Add to the Definitions section:<br class="">
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<b class="">Affiliate:</b> an entity that directly or indirectly controls, is
controlled by or is under common control with, a Member. Control for
the purposes of this Agreement shall mean direct or indirect
beneficial ownership of more than fifty percent of the voting stock,
or decision-making authority in the event that there is no voting
stock, in an entity. <br class=""><p class="MsoNormal">-- MOTION ENDS --<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none"> <o:p class=""></o:p></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri" class="">The procedure for
approval of this ballot is as follows:</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri" class=""></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class="">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 class=""><a href="https://cabforum.org/members/" class=""><span style="font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class="">https://cabforum.org/members/</span></a></font><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:windowtext" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p>
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" class="">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> </div>
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