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I have prepared a draft ballot which is also posted at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.cabforum.org/forum-xx_-_allow-informative-changes-to-guidelines">https://wiki.cabforum.org/forum-xx_-_allow-informative-changes-to-guidelines</a>.
I am looking for two endorsers to get a number and to proceed with
the official discussion period.<br>
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Thank you,<br>
Dimitris.<br>
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id="ballot_forum-11allow_informative_changes_to_guidelines">Ballot
Forum-XX: Allow Informative Changes to Guidelines</h1>
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The following motion has been proposed by Dimitris
Zacharopoulos of HARICA and endorsed by <em class="u">_ of </em>_
and <em class="u">_ of </em>_. </p>
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Following up on recent discussions,
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<div class="li"> <a
href="https://cabforum.org/2019/08/16/minutes-for-ca-browser-forum-f2f-meeting-47-thessaloniki-12-13-june-2019/#Instructions-for-creating-ballots-and-challenges-for-moving-canonical-versions-of-all-Guidelines-to-GitHub"
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title="https://cabforum.org/2019/08/16/minutes-for-ca-browser-forum-f2f-meeting-47-thessaloniki-12-13-june-2019/#Instructions-for-creating-ballots-and-challenges-for-moving-canonical-versions-of-all-Guidelines-to-GitHub"
rel="nofollow">At the last F2F in Thessaloniki</a></div>
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<div class="li"> On the <a
href="https://cabforum.org/pipermail/servercert-wg/2019-August/000896.html"
class="urlextern"
title="https://cabforum.org/pipermail/servercert-wg/2019-August/000896.html"
rel="nofollow">server certificate WG list</a></div>
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and since the current Bylaws (version 2.2) do not address how
the Chair or Vice-Chair could make any changes to the Final
Guidelines or Final Maintenance Guidelines, this ballot proposes
a procedure that would allow the Forum or WG Chair (or
Vice-Chairs) to make some informative changes to Final
Guidelines and Final Maintenance Guidelines. Please note that
these practices are already in place and have been followed for
years without any “official” approval from the Forum or a WG and
without having received any objections by the Membership.
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Since this is language that would normally be in the Bylaws, and
while we have other Bylaws issues pending to discuss, I would
like to propose this ballot to get the approval of the Forum to
establish a “Forum-approved” practice. When we update the Bylaws
in the future, we will add this practice as well.
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There seems to be consensus by the Forum to allow the Chair or
Vice-Chair to update informative (non-normative) sections of
produced Guidelines.
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This ballot also proposes removal of the first paragraph of the
EV Guidelines which contains the version number and is redundant
because the latest version and effective dates are already
included in the cover page and the versioning table.
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<strong>— MOTION BEGINS —</strong>
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The Chair or Vice-Chair of a CWG is allowed to perform changes
to informative (non-normative) parts of a Final Guideline or
Final Maintenance Guideline before it is published to the public
web site and without requiring a ballot procedure. The set of
changes are limited to:
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<div class="li"> The cover page,</div>
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<div class="li"> The Table of Contents,</div>
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<div class="li"> Headers/Footers with version numbers and page
numbers,</div>
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<div class="li"> The table with document revisions or Document
History,</div>
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<div class="li"> The table with Relevant Dates,</div>
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<div class="li"> The year in the “Copyright” information,</div>
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unless a ballot explicitly updates this information.
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Remove the first paragraph of the EV Guidelines which reads:
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<pre class="code"> "This version 1.7.0 represents the Extended Validation Guidelines, as adopted by the CA/Browser Forum as of Ballot SC17, passed by the Forum on 21 May 2019 and effective as of 21 June 2019." </pre>
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<strong>— MOTION ENDS —</strong>
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The procedure for this ballot is as follows (exact start and end
times may be adjusted to comply with applicable Bylaws and IPR
Agreement): </p>
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<tr class="row0">
<td class="col0"><strong>Forum-XX - Allow Informative
Changes to Guidelines</strong> </td>
<td class="col1"><strong>Start time (22:00 UTC)</strong> </td>
<td class="col2"><strong>End time (22:00 UTC)</strong> </td>
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<td class="col0">Discussion (7 days) </td>
<td class="col1">XX September 2019 </td>
<td class="col2">XX September 2019 </td>
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<td class="col0">Expected Vote for approval (7 days) </td>
<td class="col1">XX September 2019 </td>
<td class="col2">XX September 2019</td>
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