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<a name="_Hlk20486622"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#666666">This begins the discussion period for ballot SC43: Clarify Acceptable Status Codes.<o:p></o:p></span></a></p>
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<span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk20486622"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#666666"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk20486622"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#666666">Purpose of Ballot:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk20486622"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#666666">This ballot clarifies the allowed HTTP status codes used for following redirects in domain validation methods 18 and 19, and specifies that the
target</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk20486622"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#666666"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk20486622"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#666666">URI</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk20486622"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#666666"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk20486622"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#666666">must
come from the Location response header. In Section 3.2.2.4.18 and 3.2.2.4.19, it replaces “Redirects MUST be the result of an HTTP status code result within the 3xx Redirection class of status codes, as defined in</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk20486622"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#666666"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk20486622"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#666666">RFC</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk20486622"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#666666"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk20486622"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#666666">7231,
Section 6.4.” with the following:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk20486622"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">“Redirects MUST be the result of a 301, 302, 307, or 308 HTTP status code response.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li class="level1" style="color:#666666;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;background:white;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk20486622"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">“Redirects MUST be to resource URLs contained in the Location HTTP response header.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></li></ul>
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<span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk20486622"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#666666">The following motion has been proposed by Niko Carpenter of SecureTrust and endorsed by Corey Bonnell of DigiCert and Ryan Sleevi of Google.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk20486622"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#666666">–MOTION BEGINS–<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk20486622"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#666666">This ballot modifies the “Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted Certificates” as defined in the following redline,
based on Version 1.7.3:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk20486622"></span><a href="https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/2b7720f7821764f0ea9d0d583ec5c61896a3f4cd..2dacfa41d2fdd9c8ec4bbd365cfa759870243c3" title="https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/2b7720f7821764f0ea9d0d583ec5c61896a3f4cd..2dacfa41d2fdd9c8ec4bbd365cfa759870243c3"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk20486622"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#3399F3">https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/2b7720f7821764f0ea9d0d583ec5c61896a3f4cd..2dacfa41d2fdd9c8ec4bbd365cfa759870243c3</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk20486622"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk20486622"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk20486622"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#666666">–MOTION ENDS–<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk20486622"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#666666">This ballot proposes a Final Maintenance Guideline.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk20486622"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#666666">The procedure for approval of this ballot is as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk20486622"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#666666">Discussion (7+ days)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk20486622"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#666666">Start Time: 11-March 2021 21:30 UTC<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk20486622"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#666666">End Time: TBD<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk20486622"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#666666">Vote for approval (7 days)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk20486622"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#666666">Start Time: TBD<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk20486622"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#666666">End Time: TBD<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk20486622"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#008FC5">Niko Carpenter <br>
</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk20486622"></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#59595B">Software Engineer</span><span style="color:#59595B"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#59595B">2020 Best PCI Compliance Provider Winner – Card Not Present Awards</span></i></p>
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