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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=xp1 style='margin:0in;background:white'><span class=xs1><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'>The voting on ballot SC53 has completed, and the ballot has passed.</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=xp1 style='margin:0in;background:white;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span class=xs1><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'> </span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=xp2 style='margin:0in;background:white;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span class=xs1><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#244084'>Voting Results</span></span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#244084'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=xp3 style='margin:0in;background:white;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span class=xs1><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#182850'>Certificate Issuers</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#182850'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=xp1 style='margin:0in;background:white;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span class=xs1><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'>21 votes total, with no abstentions:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=xp1 style='color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4;background:white'><span class=xs1><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>21 Yes votes:</span></span><span class=xapple-converted-space><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'> </span></span><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'>Buypass, Certigna (DHIMYOTIS), Certum (Asseco), Chunghwa Telecom, D-TRUST, DigiCert, Disig, eMudhra, Entrust, Firmaprofesional, GDCA, GlobalSign, GoDaddy, HARICA, Izenpe, JPRS, Let's Encrypt / ISRG, OISTE, Sectigo, TrustCor, SecureTrust</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=xp1 style='color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><span class=xs1><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>0 No Votes</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=xp1 style='color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><span class=xs1><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>0 Abstentions</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=xp3 style='margin:0in;background:white;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span class=xs1><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#182850'>Certificate Consumers</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#182850'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=xp1 style='margin:0in;background:white;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span class=xs1><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'>5 votes total, with no abstentions:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=xp1 style='color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4;background:white'><span class=xs1><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>5 Yes votes: </span></span><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'>Apple, Cisco, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=xp1 style='color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;background:white'><span class=xs1><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>0 No votes</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=xp1 style='color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;background:white'><span class=xs1><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>0 Abstentions</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=xp2 style='margin:0in;background:white;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span class=xs1><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#244084'> </span></span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#244084'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=xp2 style='margin:0in;background:white;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span class=xs1><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#244084'>Bylaw Requirements</span></span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#244084'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=xp4 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;background:white;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span class=xs1><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'>1.</span></span><span class=xs3><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'> </span></span><span class=xs1><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'>Bylaw 2.3(f) requires:</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=xp5 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;background:white;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span class=xs2><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'>·</span></span><span class=xs3><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'> </span></span><span class=xs1><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'>A "yes" vote by two-thirds of Certificate Issuer votes and by 50%-plus-one of Certificate Consumer votes. Votes to abstain are not counted for this purpose.</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'><br><span class=xs1><i>This requirement was MET for Certificate Issuers and MET for Certificate Consumers.</i></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=xp5 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;background:white;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span class=xs2><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'>·</span></span><span class=xs3><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'> </span></span><span class=xs1><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'>At least one Certificate Issuer and one Certificate Consumer Member must vote in favor of a ballot for the ballot to be adopted.</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'><br><span class=xs1><i>This requirement was MET.</i></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=xp4 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;background:white;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span class=xs1><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'>2.</span></span><span class=xs3><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'> </span></span><span class=xs1><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'>Bylaw 2.3(g) requires that a ballot result only be considered valid when “more than half of the number of currently active Members has participated”. Votes to abstain are counted in determining quorum. Half of the currently active members at the start of voting was 14, so the quorum was 15 for this ballot.</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'><br><span class=xs1><i>This requirement was MET.</i></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=xp1 style='margin:0in;background:white;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span class=xs1><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'> </span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=xp1 style='margin:0in;background:white;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span class=xs1><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'>This ballot now enters the IP Rights Review Period to permit members to review the ballot for relevant IP rights issues.</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black'>-- <br>Jos Purvis (</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'><a href="mailto:jopurvis@cisco.com" title="mailto:jopurvis@cisco.com"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#954F72'>jopurvis@cisco.com</span></a></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black'>)<br>.:|:.:|:. cisco systems | Cryptographic Services<br>PGP: 0xFD802FEE07D19105 | Controls & Trust Verification</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>