<div dir="ltr">Yes, I'm aware of the "what", but it's not clear the "why".<div><br></div><div>The act of combining ballots is relatively new, as you can see from <a href="https://cabforum.org/baseline-requirements-documents/">https://cabforum.org/baseline-requirements-documents/</a> . Producing multiple versions of the Guidelines, linear based on when the Ballot concluded, was something our GitHub flow intentionally was to make easy. While that page stopped listing dates of adoption around Ballot 189, you can see previous ballot pairs (e.g. 171+164, 125+118+134+135) that did that.</div><div><br></div><div>It seems worth figuring out the challenges you're facing, since it was meant to be very easy to create a new version of the document for each ballot, even ballots that conclude closely, and to have IP reviews as such.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 11:46 AM Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA) <<a href="mailto:dzacharo@harica.gr">dzacharo@harica.gr</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div dir="ltr">Dimitris: Could you explain why it's necessary to
integrate?
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<div>It seems much better to have Ballot -> Distinct BR
version, and there's nothing in our IP policy I'm aware of
that requires you to send them as a combined review.</div>
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The result of the IPR review will produce a new version of the
Guidelines. Having two ballots with two IPR review periods would
probably require creating two versions of the Guidelines, which is
why we've been trying to combine reviews in the past, so we can bump
up one version of the Guideline.<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 4:38
AM Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA) via Servercert-wg <<a href="mailto:servercert-wg@cabforum.org" target="_blank">servercert-wg@cabforum.org</a>>
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I just realized that ballot SC28 also contains changes to
the BRs so I will create a combined IPR review for ballots
SC35 and SC28 later today. <br>
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Thank you,<br>
Dimitris.<br>
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