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    HARICA votes "No" to ballot SC-064.<br>
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    We appreciate the discussions and effort to clarify and improve
    membership criteria for Certificate Consumers and HARICA is very
    supportive of these activities. However, we do not believe there is
    an imminent risk for the Server Certificate Working Group and the
    "balance" between its Voting Members.<br>
    <br>
    In addition, from a Bylaws perspective, a ballot that effectively
    modifies a WG Charter by "pausing" acceptance of a certain member
    category, in HARICA's opinion it should have been processed at the
    Forum-level and not at the WG level. I would like to personally
    apologize for not highlighting this issue sooner.<br>
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    Dimitris.<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/6/2023 8:43 μ.μ., Ben Wilson via
      Servercert-wg wrote:<br>
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          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b>Ballot
              SC-064:<span> 
              </span>Temporary Moratorium on New Certificate Consumer
              Memberships<span></span></b></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b>Purpose
              of the Ballot<span></span></b></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">During
            discussions at Face-to-Face Meeting 58, it was noted
            that the membership criteria for Certificate Consumers in
            the Charter for the Server Certificate Working
            Group (SCWG) lacked sufficient detail. Since then, several
            members of the CA/Browser Forum
            have worked to develop better criteria for membership of
            Certificate Consumers in the SCWG, however, discussion is
            ongoing. A moratorium is necessary to preserve the status
            quo and ensure impartiality while we re-evaluate and revise
            our membership criteria so that they are more
            clear, fair, and aligned with the goals of the Forum.<span></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The
            following motion has been proposed by Ben Wilson of Mozilla
            and endorsed by Tobias Josefowitz of Opera and Thomas
            Zermeno of SSL.com.<span></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b>Motion
              Begins<span></span></b></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Effective
            immediately, there is a temporary moratorium established
            on the acceptance of applications for membership as
            Certificate Consumer members in the Server Certificate
            Working Group. This moratorium will expire on December
            1, 2023, or prior to such date, upon publication of the
            Forum’s vote on a revised
            Charter for the Server Certificate Working Group.<span></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">During
            the moratorium, the Server Certificate Working Group will
            not accept or consider applications for membership as
            Certificate Consumers. Applications
            for other types of membership may be accepted and
            considered. <span></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b>Motion
              Ends<span></span></b></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">This
            ballot does not propose a Final Guideline or Final
            Maintenance Guideline.<span>  </span>The procedure for
            approval of this ballot is as follows:<span></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Discussion
            (7 days)<span></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>   
            </span>Start Time:
            2023-05-25  21:25 UTC<span></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>   
            </span>End Time: Not
            before 2023-06-01  22:00 UTC<span></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Vote
            for approval (7 days)<span></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>   
            </span>Start Time: 
            2023-06-05  18:00 UTC
            <span></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>   
            </span>End Time: 2023-06-12  18:00 UTC
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