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<div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">GDCA votes Yes on Ballot SC-68.<br>Thanks.<br></span><span></span></div><div><span>
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<blockquote style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5em;"><div> </div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><div style="PADDING-RIGHT: 8px; PADDING-LEFT: 8px; FONT-SIZE: 12px;FONT-FAMILY:tahoma;COLOR:#000000; BACKGROUND: #efefef; PADDING-BOTTOM: 8px; PADDING-TOP: 8px"><div><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:servercert-wg@cabforum.org">Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA) via Servercert-wg</a></div><div><b>Date:</b> 2024-01-23 17:00</div><div><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:servercert-wg@cabforum.org">CA/B Forum Server Certificate WG Public Discussion List</a></div><div><b>Subject:</b> [Servercert-wg] Voting Begins for Ballot SC-68: Allow VATEL and VATXI for organizationIdentifier</div></div></div><div><div class="FoxDiv20240130150852888943">
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This email initiates the voting period for ballot SC-68. Please
vote.<br>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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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<ul style="margin-top: 0px;">
<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>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>
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<td>2024-01-30<br>
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