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    <div>All,<br>
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    Just a quick reminder that the voting period for this ballot will
    close <b>Thursday, July 20 Sept at 10:00 UTC</b>.<br>
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    Please make sure that only designated voting representatives cast
    the vote on behalf of your organization. Please use the <a
      href="https://member-tools.cabforum.org">Member Tool portal</a> to
    check the representatives of your organization and their access.<br>
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    Thank you,<br>
    Dimitris Zacharopoulos<br>
    CA/B Forum Chair<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 13/7/2023 11:43 π.μ., Dimitris
      Zacharopoulos (HARICA) via Public wrote:<br>
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        This message begins the voting period for ballot Forum-18 v3.<br>
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        Dimitris.<br>
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style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Purpose of the Ballot</span></p>
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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.</li>
          <li>Clarified language for Associate Members for consistency
            with Probationary Member for the ballot proposals and
            endorsing.</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>Publishing private conversations without express
            permission is considered a violation of the Code of Conduct.</li>
          <li>Updated the elections language as agreed at F2F#58.</li>
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        <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-3c3a1aa55886ff217ac9c808f96a5e9a9582fc11"
              class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">https://github.com/cabforum/forum/pull/32/files#diff-</a><a
href="https://github.com/cabforum/forum/pull/32/files#diff-3c3a1aa55886ff217ac9c808f96a5e9a9582fc11"
              class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">3c3a1aa55886ff217ac9c808f96a5e9a9582fc11</a></li>
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        The procedure for this ballot is as follows:<br>
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              <td><strong>Forum-18 v3 - Update CA/B Forum Bylaws to
                  version 2.5<br>
                </strong></td>
              <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 7 days)</td>
              <td>4 July 2023</td>
              <td>11 July 2023</td>
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              <td>Expected Vote for approval (7 days)</td>
              <td>13 July 2023<br>
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              <td>20 July 2023</td>
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