<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">I just wonder if this change could have been made in a more generic way, so it could be applied in other similar cases, where there’s a conflict between the BR and the applicable laws.<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 16 Jan 2024, at 09:07, Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA) via Servercert-wg <servercert-wg@cabforum.org> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div>
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<h3><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-4d16fdf6-7fff-ed5c-c0b0-09e6837a3c7d"><div style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Purpose of the Ballot</span></div>
</span></h3><p id="bkmrk-the-ev-guidelines-ha" dir="ltr" role="presentation">The
EV Guidelines have strict rules in the organizationIdentifier
values and require the country code of all currently-allowed
Registration Schemes (NTR, VAT, PSD) to follow the ISO 3166-1
for the 2-letter country prefix.<br>
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The organizationIdentifier language mainly came from ETSI
EN 319 412-1 and then the SCWG made several modifications.
However, there is an exception for Greece specifically for the
VAT Registration Scheme that is aligned with Article 215 of <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__eur-2Dlex.europa.eu_eli_dir_2006_112_oj&d=DwMDaQ&c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&r=-bX5hBm1IdRDykQ-dBR8tsFRCM4v1VXUyG7RZa2WqPY&m=pLBg9yEYzZz6uGZ9yTalH54RHu_MZI1Ch37wv852wbXGmCvaFVFIS9xQyNGMqk_D&s=WWTSPWJ77egdPB9mldguOPd13PQBVjL1VgWSY6TquVs&e=" rel="nofollow">Council Directive 2006/112/EC</a> that allows
Greece to use the country prefix "EL". In practice, Greece uses
the prefix "EL" to identify itself next to the VAT number of all
Legal Entities registered/incorporated/established in Greece,
and all other European Countries use this prefix to identify
Greek VAT numbers. This can easily be verified in the <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ec.europa.eu_taxation-5Fcustoms_vies_-23_vat-2Dvalidation&d=DwMDaQ&c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&r=-bX5hBm1IdRDykQ-dBR8tsFRCM4v1VXUyG7RZa2WqPY&m=pLBg9yEYzZz6uGZ9yTalH54RHu_MZI1Ch37wv852wbXGmCvaFVFIS9xQyNGMqk_D&s=M71CCrWhskmxf-HfnFqOLw8jWXviHQoShfJQquyspJk&e=">VIES
VAT number validation website</a> where Greece is listed
as"EL".</p><p id="bkmrk-there-is-also-counci" dir="ltr" role="presentation">There
is also <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__data.europa.eu_eli_dir_2020_1756_oj&d=DwMDaQ&c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&r=-bX5hBm1IdRDykQ-dBR8tsFRCM4v1VXUyG7RZa2WqPY&m=pLBg9yEYzZz6uGZ9yTalH54RHu_MZI1Ch37wv852wbXGmCvaFVFIS9xQyNGMqk_D&s=LSOTJmv9nz1vtYcg288tr66dvFEjYa7S7orq6hR7ey4&e=">Council
Directive 2020/1756</a> amending Directive 2006/112/EC that
requires the prefix "XI" for the identification of taxable
persons in Northern Ireland.</p><p id="bkmrk-this-pull-request-pr" dir="ltr" role="presentation">This
<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_cabforum_servercert_pull_473&d=DwMDaQ&c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&r=-bX5hBm1IdRDykQ-dBR8tsFRCM4v1VXUyG7RZa2WqPY&m=pLBg9yEYzZz6uGZ9yTalH54RHu_MZI1Ch37wv852wbXGmCvaFVFIS9xQyNGMqk_D&s=ksobmcC6x_blL7uCgPkkYAdW-7xduQ-_N4BoxPKE4ZU&e=" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pull request</a> proposes
updates to the EV Guidelines to allow those additional prefixes.
It also fixes some formatting issues.<br>
</p><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" id="bkmrk-the-following-motion">The
following motion has been proposed by Dimitris Zacharopoulos of
HARICA and endorsed by Ben Wilson of Mozilla and Corey Bonnell
of Digicert.</p>
<h3><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-4d16fdf6-7fff-ed5c-c0b0-09e6837a3c7d"><div style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(14,16,26);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">MOTION BEGINS</span></div>
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<span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-4d16fdf6-7fff-ed5c-c0b0-09e6837a3c7d"></span><p id="bkmrk-this-ballot-modifies">This ballot modifies the
“Guidelines for the Issuance and Management of Extended
Validation Certificates” (“EV Guidelines”), based on Version
1.8.0.</p><p id="bkmrk-modify-the-baseline-">MODIFY the EV Guidelines as
specified in the following Redline: <br>
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<li><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_cabforum_servercert_compare_da89d0e9700c6dd89a8263526addc39f472bf54c&d=DwMDaQ&c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&r=-bX5hBm1IdRDykQ-dBR8tsFRCM4v1VXUyG7RZa2WqPY&m=pLBg9yEYzZz6uGZ9yTalH54RHu_MZI1Ch37wv852wbXGmCvaFVFIS9xQyNGMqk_D&s=G725joOZlGcEvlGClQTdmLHZ_tv7iFiWV7rpKxS87vY&e=" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/da89d0e9700c6dd89a8263526addc39f472bf54c</a>.</li>
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<h3><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-4d16fdf6-7fff-ed5c-c0b0-09e6837a3c7d"><div style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(14,16,26);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">MOTION ENDS</span></div>
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The procedure for this ballot is as follows:<br>
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<td>2024-01-16</td>
<td>on or after 2024-01-23</td>
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<td>Expected Vote for approval (7 days)</td>
<td>TBD</td>
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