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<div dir="ltr"><div>This email begins the public discussion period of
Ballot SC42: 398-day Reuse Period. Pursuant to section 2.3 of the
Bylaws, "The discussion period then shall take place for at least seven
(7) calendar days before votes are cast. At any time, a new version of
the ballot (marked with a distinguishing version number) may be posted
by the proposer in the same manner as the original. Once no new version
of the ballot has been posted for seven (7) calendar days, the proposer
may end the discussion period and start the voting period by reposting
the final version of the ballot and clearly indicating that voting is to
begin, along with the start and end dates and times (including time
zone) for the voting period."</div><div><br></div><div><b>Type of Ballot:</b></div><br>This
is a ballot to adopt two Final Maintenance Guidelines which modify the
Forum's Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of
Publicly-Trusted Certificates (BRs) and the Guidelines for the Issuance
and Management of Extended Validation Certificates (EVGs).<br><br><b>Purpose of Ballot:</b><br><br>This
ballot changes validation reuse periods for FQDN and IP Address
validation to 398 days in section 4.2.1 of the BRs and for all purposes
in section 11.14.3 of the EVGs. The ballot does not change the 825-day
reuse period in section 4.2.1. of the BRs for Organizational Validation
(OV) information. <br><br><b>Specifically:</b><br><br>* It inserts as
the last sentence in the third paragraph of BR section 4.2.1, "<span class="gmail-blob-code-inner gmail-blob-code-marker"><span class="gmail-x gmail-x-first gmail-x-last">Effective 2021-10-01, for validation of Domain Names and IP Addresses according to Section 3.2.2.4 and 3.2.2.5, any reused data, document, or completed validation MUST be obtained no more than 398 days prior to issuing the Certificate</span></span>."<br><br>* It replaces eight instances of "thirteen months" or "thirteen-month" in EVG section 11.14.3 with 398 days.<br><br>The
following motion has been proposed by Ben Wilson of Mozilla and
endorsed by Dimitris Zacharopoulos of HARICA and Chema Lopez of
Firmaprofesional.<br><br><b> – MOTION BEGINS –</b><br><br>This ballot
modifies the “Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of
Publicly-Trusted Certificates” (“BRs”), based on Version 1.7.3: <br><div><br></div><div>
Insert as the last sentence in the third paragraph of section 4.2.1 of
the BRs, "<span class="gmail-blob-code-inner gmail-blob-code-marker"><span class="gmail-x gmail-x-first gmail-x-last">Effective 2021-10-01, for validation of Domain Names and IP Addresses according to Section 3.2.2.4 and 3.2.2.5, any reused data, document, or completed validation MUST be obtained no more than 398 days prior to issuing the Certificate.</span></span>" as
illustrated in the following
redline on GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/9672b03bec91ad9a80f826e928e47f5c1f82964b...7cd105daf3baba01579c167d9fc10afacd49c503">https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/9672b03bec91ad9a80f826e928e47f5c1f82964b...7cd105daf3baba01579c167d9fc10afacd49c503</a></div><div><br></div>This
ballot modifies the “Guidelines for the Issuance and Management of
Extended Validation Certificates” (“EVGs”) as follows, based on Version
1.7.4:<br><div><br></div><div>REPLACE all eight instances of "thirteen
months" (or "thirteen-month") in section 11.14.3 of the EVGs with 398
days and 398-day, respectively, as illustrated in the following redline on GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/9672b03bec91ad9a80f826e928e47f5c1f82964b...7cd105daf3baba01579c167d9fc10afacd49c503">https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/9672b03bec91ad9a80f826e928e47f5c1f82964b...7cd105daf3baba01579c167d9fc10afacd49c503</a>
<br></div><br><b> – MOTION ENDS –</b><br><br>This ballot proposes two Final Maintenance Guidelines.<br><br>The procedure for approval of this ballot is as follows:<br><br>Discussion (7+ days)<br><br>Start Time: 2021-04-08 17:00:00 UTC<br><br>End Time: TBD<br><br>Vote for approval (7 days)<br><br>Start Time: TBD<br><br>End Time: TBD <div class="gmail-adL"><br></div></div>
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