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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</span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk20486622"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">
 version 2</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk20486622"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#666666">: Clarify Acceptable Status Codes.</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk20486622"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">
 An effective date of July 1, 2021 was added in this version.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk20486622"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">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"">This ballot clarifies the allowed HTTP status codes used for following redirects in domain validation methods 18 and 19, and specifies that the target URI must
 come from the Location response header.<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"">In Section 3.2.2.4.18 and 3.2.2.4.19, it replaces<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 an HTTP status code result within the 3xx Redirection class of status codes, as defined in RFC 7231, Section 6.4." with the
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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></p>
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<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></p>
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<span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk20486622"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">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"">--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"">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 style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/2b7720f7821764f0ea9d0d583ec5c61896a3f4cd..bd7915249a0360a28fe37b785c367d70645c7e8f<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"">--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"">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"">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"">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"">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"">Start Time: 01-April 2021 16:00 UTC<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><o:p></o:p></p>
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<a href="http://www.securetrust.com"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">www.securetrust.com</span></a><span style="color:black"><br>
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