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SSL.com votes YES on Ballot SC-062.<br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Servercert-wg <servercert-wg-bounces@cabforum.org> on behalf of Ryan Dickson via Servercert-wg <servercert-wg@cabforum.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 9, 2023 1:00 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> ServerCert CA/BF <servercert-wg@cabforum.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Servercert-wg] Voting Period Begins - Ballot SC-062 V2: Certificate Profiles Update</font>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-weight:700; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Purpose of
Ballot SC-062 V2</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial; color:rgb(14,16,26); font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Over the past three years,
members of the Server Certificate Working Group Validation Subcommittee have collaborated on an update to the
</span><span style="font-family:Arial; color:rgb(14,16,26); font-style:italic; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted
Certificates</span><span style="font-family:Arial; color:rgb(14,16,26); font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap"> focused on improving the clarity of Section 7 (“Certificate, CRL, and OCSP
Profiles”). </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial; color:rgb(14,16,26); font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">The update: </span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">better aligns certificate content expectations across certificate issuers and consumers, </span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">reduces the opportunity for confusion resulting from the absence of a more precise certificate profile specification, and </span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">promotes more consistent and reliable implementations across the ecosystem.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial; color:rgb(14,16,26); font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">While most of the proposed
updates focus on Section 7, changes were </span><span style="font-family:Arial; color:rgb(14,16,26); font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration-line:underline; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">not</span><span style="font-family:Arial; color:rgb(14,16,26); font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">
limited to only this section. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial; color:rgb(14,16,26); font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Technical discussion related
to the proposed changes, along with high-level change summaries have been documented in:</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(14,16,26); font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">open GitHub pull requests (originally</span><a href="https://github.com/sleevi/cabforum-docs/pull/36" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26); font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">
</span><span style="color:rgb(74,110,224); font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration-line:underline; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">here</span></a><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26); font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">,
and more recently</span><a href="https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/pull/373" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26); font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">
</span><span style="color:rgb(74,110,224); font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration-line:underline; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">here</span></a><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26); font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">),</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(14,16,26); font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">several closed GitHub pull requests made against the “</span><a href="https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/tree/profiles" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="color:rgb(74,110,224); font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration-line:underline; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">profiles</span></a><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26); font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">”
branch of the servercert GitHub repository (most recently</span><a href="https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/pull/418" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">
</span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration-line:underline; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">here</span></a><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">)</span><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26); font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">,
and</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(14,16,26); font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Validation Subcommittee meeting minutes (to include sessions held at Face-to-Face meetings). </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial; color:rgb(14,16,26); font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Due to a small number of
changes proposed in the ballot that is otherwise focused on clarifying existing requirements, an “all-encompassing” effective date makes these changes normative beginning 2023-09-15.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial; color:rgb(14,16,26); font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">The following motion has
been proposed by Ryan Dickson of Google and endorsed by Clint Wilson of Apple and Dimitris Zacharopoulos of HARICA.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial; color:rgb(14,16,26); font-weight:700; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">— Motion
Begins —</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial; color:rgb(14,16,26); font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">This ballot modifies the
“Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted Certificates” (“Baseline Requirements”), based on Version 1.8.6.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial; color:rgb(14,16,26); font-weight:700; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Notes:</span><span style="font-family:Arial; color:rgb(14,16,26); font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(14,16,26); font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Upon beginning discussion for SC-62 V2 on 2/17, Version 1.8.6 was the latest approved version of the BRs. During the
discussion period, the SC-61 V4 vote was </span><a href="https://lists.cabforum.org/pipermail/servercert-wg/2023-February/003600.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration-line:underline; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">approved</span></a><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26); font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">,
incrementing the soon to be latest version of the BRs to 1.8.7. These changes are in the process of being merged into the main Github repository.</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(14,16,26); font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">The changes introduced in
</span><a href="https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/e87bc5fcf35f533e58899311e538e6ffe959102e" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration-line:underline; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">SC-62
V2</span></a><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26); font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap"> do not conflict with those added in
</span><a href="https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/2c63814fa7f9f7c477c74a6bfbeb57e0fcc5dd5b..aa9fc5d0b2b59504a31638e880cb81c69aefa018" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration-line:underline; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">SC-61
V4</span></a><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26); font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">. </span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(14,16,26); font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">As observed with other ballots in the past, minor administrative updates must be made to the proposed ballot text before
publication such that the appropriate Version # and Change History are accurately represented (e.g., to indicate these changes will be represented in Version 1.8.8).</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial; color:rgb(14,16,26); font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">MODIFY the Baseline Requirements
as specified in the following Redline: </span><a href="https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/2c63814fa7f9f7c477c74a6bfbeb57e0fcc5dd5b..aa9fc5d0b2b59504a31638e880cb81c69aefa018" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-family:Arial; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration-line:underline; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/2c63814fa7f9f7c477c74a6bfbeb57e0fcc5dd5b..aa9fc5d0b2b59504a31638e880cb81c69aefa018</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial; color:rgb(14,16,26); font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p>
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Ends —</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial; color:rgb(14,16,26); font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">This ballot proposes a Final
Maintenance Guideline. The procedure for approval of this ballot is as follows:</span></p>
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(11+ days)</span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Start time: 2023-02-17 19:00:00 UTC</span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">End time: 2023-03-09 18:59:00 UTC</span></p>
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approval (7 days)</span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Start time: 2023-03-09 19:00:00 UTC</span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">End time: 2023-03-16 19:00:00 UTC</span></p>
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