<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;">Apple votes YES on Ballot SC-068.<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jan 23, 2024, at 1:00 AM, Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA) via Servercert-wg <servercert-wg@cabforum.org> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div>

  
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      This email initiates the voting period for ballot SC-68. Please
      vote.<br>
      <h3><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-4d16fdf6-7fff-ed5c-c0b0-09e6837a3c7d"><p dir="ltr" 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;"></span></p>
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        <span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-4d16fdf6-7fff-ed5c-c0b0-09e6837a3c7d"><p dir="ltr" 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;"></span></p>
        </span><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://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2006/112/oj" rel="nofollow" moz-do-not-send="true">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://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/#/vat-validation" moz-do-not-send="true">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://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2020/1756/oj" moz-do-not-send="true">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://github.com/cabforum/servercert/pull/473" target="_blank" rel="noopener" moz-do-not-send="true">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://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/da89d0e9700c6dd89a8263526addc39f472bf54c" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/da89d0e9700c6dd89a8263526addc39f472bf54c</a>.</li>
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      The procedure for this ballot is as follows:<br>
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            <td><strong> </strong><br>
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            <td><strong>Start time (8:00 UTC)</strong></td>
            <td><strong>End time (8:00 UTC)</strong></td>
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            <td>Discussion (at least 7 days)</td>
            <td>2024-01-16</td>
            <td>2024-01-23</td>
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            <td>Expected Vote for approval (7 days)</td>
            <td>2024-01-23<br>
            </td>
            <td>2024-01-30<br>
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