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<p style="margin:0in;background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;font-weight:normal">Thank you very much to Ben for the endorsement:
<a href="https://github.com/cabforum/forum/pull/27#issuecomment-1189406036">https://github.com/cabforum/forum/pull/27#issuecomment-1189406036</a><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;font-weight:normal">Looking for one more endorser, and I always forget how to do stable github
comparison URLs…<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="margin:0in;background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Ballot FORUM-18, Allow Re-election of CWG Chairs and Vice Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="margin:0in;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Proposed by Tim Hollebeek of DigiCert and endorsed by Ben Wilson of Mozilla and ??? of ???.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Overview</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br style="outline: none">
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<p style="margin:0in;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">The current Bylaws have been read by some to allow re-election of CWG Chairs and Vice Chairs, and by others to prohibit it. It has happened once
in the past, and whether it is allowed depends on whether “follow the procedures of Bylaws Section 4.1 as closely as possible” is merely referring to election procedures, or also candidate qualifications.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">This ambiguity was discussed during the spring CA/Browser Forum Face-to-face meeting, and the consensus was that we should update the Bylaws to
clarify that re-election is allowed, and the election process itself is sufficient to determine whether members want to retain the existing Chair and/or Vice Chair, or whether they want to vote for someone else. This is important because the pool of qualified
and willing candidates is not particularly large.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">This ballot retains term limits at the Forum level.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;font-weight:normal">— MOTION BEGINS —<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">The Bylaws of the CA/Browser Forum are amended as described in the following redline:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://github.com/cabforum/forum/compare/main...timfromdigicert-bylaws-reelection">https://github.com/cabforum/forum/compare/main...timfromdigicert-bylaws-reelection</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">— MOTION ENDS —<br>
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The procedure for approval of this ballot is as follows:<br>
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Discussion (7+ days)<br>
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Start Time: ???<br>
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End Time: ???<br>
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Vote for approval (7 days)<br>
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Start Time: ???<br>
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End Time: ???<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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