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<p class="MsoNormal">CommScope votes YES on ballot SC-68.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Servercert-wg <servercert-wg-bounces@cabforum.org>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA) via Servercert-wg<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 16, 2024 3:08 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> CA/B Forum Server Certificate WG Public Discussion List <servercert-wg@cabforum.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Servercert-wg] Ballot SC-68: Allow VATEL and VATXI for organizationIdentifier<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Purpose of the Ballot</span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p id="bkmrk-the-ev-guidelines-ha">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://secure-web.cisco.com/1pLA0ypcHcA_5cWeApd4zI9spafU0Z3AdtI3JUAvDJDeFMsV-ZrdYC5JsHWIaRH3FpmI0Q-Vnq0LjVczb7Cf3pucRx_QEIr8jqhRce_F0d1e4syRdgOfPDmx5JjxaSayCLOfE0OgCzFMnPoL4e9oDkW5717n1DqcARzvjP1OOP8JNQphPLWmdCeMSK71MNejqfsFCg-OHqfEp2OWsSBg_696ja2aeSeBQoZCs9jmTzc29MPhqRgiYBu0HOLJZLRE4KItxf-psniX_b42xq5NElKQsH9KOgOCVeUoPu8E6j2HQIOv5i4T2KYLoALpnS__D/https%3A%2F%2Feur-lex.europa.eu%2Feli%2Fdir%2F2006%2F112%2Foj">
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://secure-web.cisco.com/10mnAJfX3lJOiRmRGJn1mKpD0zGDq0fG11I-gbxDzOs-thEFu-3bUgLWiNS5iErRzKkuTin6RDXXbkZy0OOHxAKWUruIzOGQZaAtxHkiPZaqMCkVOSJEqzolfAIJMwQOHZ6BWZqo4UlkFkwtJoCi8NUVz5ux_hloTOnd68-ttL-RZGpSuGeh8CrbSgbSiJmUcFZ-DbYsaRvMjrqUtNg5RosQ4WE6q12KKSW_OclawkfUTtQ4PnvTBLx2IyzyyTHa7AsopiZ1vmrBqX9xWkFncvhnKA0xkREp5yt2S1j2Ju7x4aI566J9-hpdlGEMrFOAj/https%3A%2F%2Fec.europa.eu%2Ftaxation_customs%2Fvies%2F%23%2Fvat-validation">VIES
VAT number validation website</a> where Greece is listed as"EL".<o:p></o:p></p>
<p id="bkmrk-there-is-also-counci">There is also <a href="https://secure-web.cisco.com/1bnkAvylipWEyU1J43-Ou7oueSLX23mWWEkVMr9hERfXj-FasD6M-F_qOBXjypwYbMT4Tmrj_Xszpp3haIq-18e3ZcwGGwOBSWzJNYV5Nv18lIquTHxsw9ulbFhnwhUy-YQBwR9ywgxFtOhk20_gG3TKrE3KG3jTaCI4SYoWXHeyocHyxoT-KlzaSn7PhVe1LHCJTOq6Dk3Ujm6-Ljh4FwRldMsfyqMvlWzFUeHhbSsuMC51GMp587tHyfbf5M6XJe-MWYAr_5pGkiddFM4oOAlk4HxXb6_RnNcUT-NjgVeb8407MA0wsqXnwG41i2Wea/https%3A%2F%2Fdata.europa.eu%2Feli%2Fdir%2F2020%2F1756%2Foj">
Council Directive 2020/1756</a> amending Directive 2006/112/EC that requires the prefix "XI" for the identification of taxable persons in Northern Ireland.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p id="bkmrk-this-pull-request-pr">This <a href="https://secure-web.cisco.com/1QEIaYZ-_WCrFOfCHjnBfgmUnphUZ1dW2NTZM2rAjYpfvCV1kS8zZdlQM2Wal2RtazKw6FhIdIfBrL3u0UNVoRlcDN8NtbWCrs_gpT0ivFx20H5JbpP_P-iyiyjYNxJqZCM9JZZlMwSDp245UiT772daITB-iPYnr1QWieHSX7UV0Mb0lBzXHpmvEaqbvQ2VRONp39ccImHdpXvzHIrN_x_DP4BpiblRjc8-AGTlFmS0IRP_dkeRrImGMxhJ2zyAg512f8w4xd9PQmUkwWZ65LBWbQcV5TXH7ff3qalMWLyxqAK3MxDgfhps12EJVEf5Z/https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fcabforum%2Fservercert%2Fpull%2F473">
pull request</a> proposes updates to the EV Guidelines to allow those additional prefixes. It also fixes some formatting issues.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p 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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0E101A">MOTION BEGINS</span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p id="bkmrk-modify-the-baseline-">MODIFY the EV Guidelines as specified in the following Redline:
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<a href="https://secure-web.cisco.com/1l4oqJ8HSQl_eIZJYG-F9akTNYN1KAk8aoCJGCSm6Cuf24wrvHRFsqYyyGdgtJ3q_xrs2C7M6v2ZOLzPjo6mOpp8Tsh1Ct_pdHW6uVkt9h-HRDNgPKKCZXHYQ3aQ0zqceviMLaQL6p-LWbKvDkzhAnM66RrWFP80wjkWa0gfkFCyl9AMG7tw8r2JNi175LCRBVJ5sZUuWHkwWwenIyWvmDbcGViNaZphSD8BZwmRJqQqurcwAn9p7flW2S-JB_dlRfHYjHnRqT4WBe3_BE5NKbTsdZe7oQ85zczyGi5waUjlEiTLW56PkV_VXMczm7tzt/https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fcabforum%2Fservercert%2Fcompare%2Fda89d0e9700c6dd89a8263526addc39f472bf54c">https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/da89d0e9700c6dd89a8263526addc39f472bf54c</a>.<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">The procedure for this ballot is as follows:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">2024-01-16<o:p></o:p></p>
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