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Dear Members,<br>
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I received a few comments on GitHub which have resulted in a newer
version. I plan to leave a few more days for people to review, and
on Monday I will submit a second version of the ballot with a
discussion period of 7 days.<br>
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Thank you,<br>
Dimitris.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/6/2023 1:21 μ.μ., Dimitris
Zacharopoulos (HARICA) via Public wrote:<br>
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The Forum has identified and discussed a number of improvements
to be made to the current version of the Bylaws to improve
clarity and allow the Forum to function more efficiently. Most
of these changes are described in the “<a
title="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EtrIy3F5cPge0_M-C8J6fe72KcVI8H5Q_2S6S31ynU0"
href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EtrIy3F5cPge0_M-C8J6fe72KcVI8H5Q_2S6S31ynU0"
rel="nofollow" moz-do-not-send="true">Issues with Bylaws to be
addressed</a>” document. Some preparatory discussions and
reviews can be checked on <a
href="https://github.com/cabforum/forum/pull/32"
moz-do-not-send="true">GitHub</a>.<br>
<p id="bkmrk-here-is-a-list-of-ma">Here is a list of major
changes:</p>
<ol id="bkmrk-clarified-the-use-of">
<li>Clarified that it is not always required to “READ” the
antitrust statement before each meeting and added the option
of reading a "note-well".<br>
</li>
<li>Clarified where to send/post Chartered Working Group
minutes.</li>
<li>Increased the number of days before automatic failing a
ballot from 21 to 90 days.</li>
<li>Allow Chair or Vice-Chair to update links to other
sections within a document without a ballot.</li>
<li>Applied grammatical and other language improvements.</li>
<li>Clarified that Subcommittee minutes do not need to also be
published on the public web site.</li>
<li>Created a new member category called "Probationary
Member", applicable to both Certificate Issuer and Consumer
categories, and separated "Associate Members - Certificate
Issuers" from the "Associate Member" category.<br>
</li>
<li>Removed the member category called "Root CA Issuer" and
only kept the "CA Issuer" category.</li>
<li>Added a step to check the authority of the signer during
membership applications.<br>
</li>
<li>Updated the Chartered Working Group template.<br>
</li>
<li>Added some language to the Code of Conduct.</li>
<li>Updated the elections language as agreed at F2F#58.</li>
</ol>
<p id="bkmrk-the-following-motion">The following motion has been
proposed by Dimitris Zacharopoulos of HARICA and endorsed by
Ben Wilson of Mozilla and Paul van Brouwershaven of Entrust.</p>
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<span
id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-4d16fdf6-7fff-ed5c-c0b0-09e6837a3c7d"></span><strong>Amendment
to the Bylaws:</strong> Replace the entire text of the Bylaws
of the CA/Browser Forum with the attached version (CA-Browser
Forum Bylaws v2.5.pdf).
<p id="bkmrk-note%3A-there-are-thre"><strong>NOTE:</strong>
There are two redlines produced by GitHub<br>
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<ol id="bkmrk-pdf-%28attached%29-docx-">
<li>Bylaws-redline.pdf (attached)</li>
<li>GitHub redline available at <a
href="https://github.com/cabforum/forum/pull/32/files#diff-00dc82c5c5b5a798acc5b77d0b8de6a3f87f6f5a"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">https://github.com/cabforum/forum/pull/32/files#diff-00dc82c5c5b5a798acc5b77d0b8de6a3f87f6f5a</a>
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</li>
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The procedure for this ballot is as follows:<br>
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<td><strong>Forum-18 - Update CA/B Forum Bylaws to version
2.5<br>
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<td><strong>Start time (10:00 UTC)</strong></td>
<td><strong>End time (10:00 UTC)</strong></td>
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<td>Discussion (at least 14 days)</td>
<td>02 June 2023</td>
<td>16 June 2023</td>
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<td>Expected Vote for approval (7 days)</td>
<td>TBD</td>
<td>TBD</td>
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