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p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div>Hi Corey, I think we'll need to renumber this ballot, as SC55 was the special election ballot we just completed for the SCWG Chair position.</div><div><br></div><div>On Thu, Oct 6, 2022, at 08:00, Corey Bonnell via Servercert-wg wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style="word-wrap:break-word;"><div class="qt-WordSection1"><h1><a name="_Hlk92104730">Purpose of Ballot</a><br></h1><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span style="">Over the past two years, several editorial issues have been identified in the Baseline Requirements and Extended Validation Guidelines. This ballot resolves these issues to improve the clarity and consistency of these documents. No new normative requirements are introduced by the changes in this ballot.</span><br></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span style="">The following motion has been proposed by Corey Bonnell of DigiCert and endorsed by Bruce Morton of Entrust and Aaron Gable of Let’s Encrypt.</span><br></p><h1><span style="">Motion Begins</span><br></h1><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span style="">This ballot modifies the “Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted Certificates” (“Baseline Requirements”), based on Version 1.8.4.</span><br></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span style=""><br>MODIFY the Baseline Requirements as specified in the following Redline:</span></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span style=""></span><a href="https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/bbca71465ed8a8a76383086039f52c750009286a...01b7c563715310752aabea5507a6f08dd09d6b41"><span style="">https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/bbca71465ed8a8a76383086039f52c750009286a...01b7c563715310752aabea5507a6f08dd09d6b41</span><span style=""></span></a><span style=""><span class="qt-MsoHyperlink"></span></span><br></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span><br></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span style="">This ballot modifies the “Guidelines for the Issuance and Management of Extended Validation Certificates” (“EV Guidelines”), based on Version 1.7.9.</span><br></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span style="">MODIFY the EV Guidelines as defined in the following redline:</span><br></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span style=""></span><a href="https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/bbca71465ed8a8a76383086039f52c750009286a...01b7c563715310752aabea5507a6f08dd09d6b41"><span style="">https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/bbca71465ed8a8a76383086039f52c750009286a...01b7c563715310752aabea5507a6f08dd09d6b41</span><span style=""></span></a><span style=""></span><br></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span style=""><u><span style="color:rgb(5, 99, 193);"><span style="text-decoration:none;"> </span></span></u></span><br></p><h1><span style="">Motion Ends</span><br></h1><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span style="">This ballot proposes a Final Maintenance Guideline. The procedure for approval of this ballot is as follows:</span><br></p><h2><span style="">Discussion (7+ days)</span><br></h2><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span style="">Start time: 2022-10-06 12:00:00 UTC</span><br></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span style="">End time: Not before 2022-10-13 12:00:00 UTC</span><br></p><h2><span style="">Vote for approval (7 days)</span><br></h2><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span style="">Start time: TBD</span><br></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span style="">End time: TBD</span><br></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal"> <br></p></div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div>Servercert-wg mailing list<br></div><div><a href="mailto:Servercert-wg@cabforum.org">Servercert-wg@cabforum.org</a><br></div><div><a href="https://lists.cabforum.org/mailman/listinfo/servercert-wg">https://lists.cabforum.org/mailman/listinfo/servercert-wg</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Attachments:</b><br></div><ul><li>smime.p7s<br></li></ul></blockquote><div><br></div></body></html>