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    I was not aware of this effort and I'm trying to find any relevant
    emails to the group that I missed with any of these announcements.<br>
    <br>
    In any case, thank you for the update, I'm sure this will receive
    more attention (and contributions) now that it has been highlighted
    :)<br>
    <br>
    <br>
    Dimitris.<br>
    <br>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/6/2024 11:51 μ.μ., Ryan Dickson
      via Servercert-wg wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:0100018fe505c085-fae56cb1-b4de-4285-a5fe-4e9940a28bc7-000000@email.amazonses.com">
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          <p dir="ltr"
            style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Hi
              Roman,</span></p>
          <br>
          <p dir="ltr"
            style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Thank
              you for highlighting the Princeton Open MPIC Project,
              which we introduced in the preamble of SC-067 Version 1
              [1]. While we appreciate your (and others) perspective,
              this ballot intends to close an open vulnerability that
              was presented at F2F 58 (February 28, 2023), and as I
              understand it, discussed within the Server Certificate
              Working Group before that time.</span></p>
          <br>
          <p dir="ltr"
            style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">There
              are multiple approaches to implementing MPIC in a manner
              that satisfies the requirements described in this ballot.
              The Princeton API [2] is just one example. We also see an
              API [3] available from Cloudflare, and earlier ballot
              discussion highlighted VPNs [4] could also be used in lieu
              of standing up remote cloud server instances. The ballot
              was subsequently updated [5] to make the permitted use of
              VPNs clear. </span></p>
          <br>
          <p dir="ltr"
            style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Beyond
              this, I’m unaware of other ballots passed in recent
              history that have gone to such lengths to ensure ease of
              community adoption, especially ones intended at
              introducing meaningful security improvements in response
              to a demonstrated and ongoing vulnerability. This approach
              has included delaying the Effective Dates described in
              earlier proposals [6, slide 37], and also adopting a
              phased approach that strengthens over time to allow CA
              Owners a reasonable amount of flexibility and time for
              them to fine-tune implementations before blocking action
              becomes normative [6, slide 38]. </span></p>
          <br>
          <p dir="ltr"
            style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Just
              as was discussed in messages [7][8][9] related to
              third-party linting tools, delaying the adoption of an
              important security function because of a dependency on a
              voluntary contribution by a third-party who is not a Forum
              participant is a path that must be avoided. </span></p>
          <br>
          <p dir="ltr"
            style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Regardless
              of the above, we’ve checked with the Princeton researchers
              and they have indicated:</span></p>
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            <li dir="ltr"
style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p
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            role="presentation"><span
style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">they expect the current API specification [2] to be implemented by September 2024. The ballot describes the first “MUST" implementation date as March 15, 2025 [10]. I’ll note this “MUST" effective date is intentionally “soft”, as CAs can use their discretion as to whether MPIC responses block issuance. The “hard" block requirement takes effect September 15, 2025.</span></p></li>
            <li dir="ltr"
style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p
            dir="ltr"
            style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"
            role="presentation"><span
style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">they are expected to upload a functional prototype to GitHub this week.</span></p></li>
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style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p
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            role="presentation"><span
style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">only 4 CA Owners have joined the Open MPIC Project mailing list [11]. </span></p></li>
          </ul>
          <br>
          <p dir="ltr"
            style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Related
              to the Open MPIC Project mailing list, I was surprised at
              such low participation and interest in collaboration given
              (1) the perceived community reaction to Henry’s
              presentation at F2F 58 and following discussions and (2)
              how long we’ve been discussing MPIC within the Validation
              Subcommittee and broader SCWG. Beyond the points earlier
              about the risk and precedent of delaying adoption of a
              security function as a result of a voluntary third-party
              contribution, it’s difficult to reason this limited
              community participation as a motivating factor for
              delaying the ballot, which should be instead interpreted
              as helping close an open Web PKI vulnerability, as a
              result of the project’s progress.</span></p>
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            style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Thanks,</span></p>
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style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Ryan</span></p>
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style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">References: </span></p>
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style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">[1]
              </span><a
                href="https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/pull/487"
                style="text-decoration-line:none" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/pull/487</span></a><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p>
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style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">[2]
              </span><a
href="https://github.com/open-mpic/open-mpic-specification"
                style="text-decoration-line:none" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://github.com/open-mpic/open-mpic-specification</span></a><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p>
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style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">[3]
              </span><a
href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/19wvjk7lcK1TCQpJrjEljosTEe8A0We1ayRp_1Ou3r4s/edit#heading=h.9kf5j5tsn6i7"
                style="text-decoration-line:none" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://docs.google.com/document/d/19wvjk7lcK1TCQpJrjEljosTEe8A0We1ayRp_1Ou3r4s/edit#heading=h.9kf5j5tsn6i7</span></a></p>
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style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">[4]
              </span><a
href="https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/pull/487#discussion_r1557725687"
                style="text-decoration-line:none" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/pull/487#discussion_r1557725687</span></a><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p>
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style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">[5]
              </span><a
href="https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/pull/507/commits/01b3f1d9fa361d0dc568cf5a2713e6f39abb7438#diff-e0ac1bd190515a4f2ec09139d395ef6a8c7e9e5b612957c1f5a2dea80c6a6cfeR389"
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style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/pull/507/commits/01b3f1d9fa361d0dc568cf5a2713e6f39abb7438#diff-e0ac1bd190515a4f2ec09139d395ef6a8c7e9e5b612957c1f5a2dea80c6a6cfeR389</span></a><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p>
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style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">[6]
              </span><a
href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LTwtAwHXcSaPVSsqKQztNJrV2ozHJ7ZL/view"
                style="text-decoration-line:none" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LTwtAwHXcSaPVSsqKQztNJrV2ozHJ7ZL/view</span></a><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p>
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style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">[7]
              </span><a
href="https://archive.cabforum.org/pipermail/servercert-wg/2024-April/004411.html"
                style="text-decoration-line:none" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://archive.cabforum.org/pipermail/servercert-wg/2024-April/004411.html</span></a></p>
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style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">[8]
              </span><a
href="https://archive.cabforum.org/pipermail/servercert-wg/2024-April/004417.html"
                style="text-decoration-line:none" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://archive.cabforum.org/pipermail/servercert-wg/2024-April/004417.html</span></a><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p>
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style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">[9]
              </span><a
href="https://archive.cabforum.org/pipermail/servercert-wg/2024-May/004614.html"
                style="text-decoration-line:none" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://archive.cabforum.org/pipermail/servercert-wg/2024-May/004614.html</span></a><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p>
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style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">[10]
              </span><a
href="https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/pull/517/files#diff-e0ac1bd190515a4f2ec09139d395ef6a8c7e9e5b612957c1f5a2dea80c6a6cfeR1110"
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style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/pull/517/files#diff-e0ac1bd190515a4f2ec09139d395ef6a8c7e9e5b612957c1f5a2dea80c6a6cfeR1110</span></a><span
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              </span><a
href="https://lists.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=OPEN-MPIC"
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style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://lists.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=OPEN-MPIC</span></a><span
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        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 3:47 AM
          Roman Fischer via Servercert-wg <<a
            href="mailto:servercert-wg@cabforum.org"
            moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">servercert-wg@cabforum.org</a>>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dear all,</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">I was
                    informed by direct mail about the following which I
                    find very interesting and wanted to share here:</span></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Princeton
                    researchers are working on an open source
                    implementation of MPIC and are looking for
                    collaborators: </span><a
href="https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2024/02/13/announcing-the-open-multi-perspective-issuance-corroboration-project/"
                    moz-do-not-send="true"><span lang="EN-US">https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2024/02/13/announcing-the-open-multi-perspective-issuance-corroboration-project/</span></a><span
                    lang="EN-US">. The first version of the API
                    specification is on </span><a
href="https://github.com/open-mpic/open-mpic-specification/tree/main"
                    moz-do-not-send="true"><span lang="EN-US">github</span></a><span
                    lang="EN-US">.</span></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">As
                    these developments seem to be in an early stage,
                    wouldn’t it make sense to postpone this ballot until
                    at least a first draft of this open source
                    implementation is available? I don’t think it makes
                    sense that each CA invents their own protocols and
                    possibly makes avoidable mistakes coding /
                    implementing this non-trivial topic..</span></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Kind
                    regards<br>
                    Roman</span></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
                <div
style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0cm 0cm">
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">
                      Servercert-wg <<a
                        href="mailto:servercert-wg-bounces@cabforum.org"
                        moz-do-not-send="true"
                        class="moz-txt-link-freetext">servercert-wg-bounces@cabforum.org</a>>
                      <b>On Behalf Of </b>Chris Clements via
                      Servercert-wg<br>
                      <b>Sent:</b> Montag, 20. Mai 2024 16:30<br>
                      <b>To:</b> CA/B Forum Server Certificate WG Public
                      Discussion List <<a
                        href="mailto:servercert-wg@cabforum.org"
                        moz-do-not-send="true"
                        class="moz-txt-link-freetext">servercert-wg@cabforum.org</a>><br>
                      <b>Subject:</b> [Servercert-wg] Discussion Period
                      Begins - Ballot SC-067 V3: "Require domain
                      validation and CAA checks to be performed from
                      multiple Network Perspectives"</span></p>
                </div>
                <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                <div>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><b><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)">Purpose of
                        Ballot SC-067 V3</span></b><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)">:</span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"> </span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)">This Ballot
                      proposes updates to the
                      <i>Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and
                        Management of Publicly-Trusted TLS Server
                        Certificates</i> (i.e., TLS BRs) related to
                      “Multi-Perspective Issuance Corroboration”
                      (“MPIC”).</span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"> </span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><b><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)">Background</span></b><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)">:</span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"> </span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)">- MPIC refers
                      to performing domain validation and CAA checks
                      from multiple Network Perspectives before
                      certificate issuance, as described within the
                      Ballot for the applicable validation methods in
                      TLS BR Sections 3.2.2.4 and 3.2.2.5.</span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)">- Not all
                      methods described in TLS BR Sections 3.2.2.4 and
                      3.2.2.5 will require using MPIC.</span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)">- This work was
                      most recently motivated by research presented at
                      Face-to-Face 58 [1] by Princeton University, but
                      has been discussed for years prior as well.</span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)">- The goal of
                      this proposal is to make it more difficult for
                      adversaries to successfully launch
                      equally-specific prefix attacks against the domain
                      validation processes described in the TLS BRs.</span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)">- Additional
                      background information can be found in an update
                      shared at Face-to-Face 60 [2].</span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"> </span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><b><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)">Benefits of
                        Adoption</span></b><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)">:</span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"> </span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)">- Recent
                      publicly-documented attacks have used BGP hijacks
                      to fool domain control validation and obtain
                      malicious certificates, which led to the
                      impersonation of HTTPS websites [3][</span><span
                      style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">4</span><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)">].</span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)">- Routing
                      security defenses (e.g., RPKI) can mitigate the
                      risk of global BGP attacks, but localized,
                      equally-specific BGP attacks still pose a
                      significant threat to the Web PKI [5][6].</span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)">- Corroborating
                      domain control validation checks from multiple
                      network perspectives (i.e., MPIC) spread across
                      the Internet substantially reduces the threat
                      posed by equally-specific BGP attacks, ensuring
                      the integrity of domain validation and issuance
                      decisions [5][7][8].</span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)">- Existing
                      deployments of MPIC at the scale of millions of
                      certificates a day demonstrate the feasibility of
                      this technique at Internet scale [7][9].</span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"> </span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><b><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)">Intellectual
                        Property (IP) Disclosure</span></b><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)">:</span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"> </span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)">- While not a
                      Server Certificate Working Group Member,
                      researchers from Princeton University presented at
                      Face-to-Face 58, provided academic expertise, and
                      highlighted publicly-available peer-reviewed
                      research to support Members in drafting this
                      ballot.</span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)">- The Princeton
                      University researchers indicate that they have not
                      filed for any patents relating to their MPIC work
                      and do not plan to do so in the future.</span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)">- Princeton
                      University has indicated that it is unable to
                      agree to the CA/Browser Forum IPR agreement
                      because it could encumber inventions invented by
                      researchers not involved in the development of
                      MPIC or with the CA/B Forum.</span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)">- Princeton
                      University has instead provided the attached IPR
                      statement. Pursuant to the IPR statement,
                      Princeton University has granted a worldwide
                      royalty free license to the intellectual property
                      in MPIC developed by the researchers and has made
                      representations regarding its lack of knowledge of
                      any other Princeton intellectual property needed
                      to implement MPIC.</span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)">- The attached
                      IPR statement has not changed since disclosed in
                      Discussion Round 1.</span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
                      style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">-
                      For clarity, Princeton University’s IPR statement
                      is NOT intended to replace the Forum’s IPR
                      agreement or allow Princeton to participate in the
                      Forum in any capacity.</span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
                      style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">-
                      Members seeking legal advice regarding this ballot
                      should consult their own counsel.</span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"> </span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><b><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)">Proposal
                        Revision History</span></b><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)">:</span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"> </span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)">- Pre-Ballot
                      Release #1 (work team artifacts and broader
                      Validation Subcommittee collaboration) [10]</span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)">- Pre-Ballot
                      Release #2 [11]</span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"> </span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><b><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)">Previous
                        versions of this Ballot</span></b><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)">:</span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)">-</span><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)"> Ballot Release
                      #1 [12] (comparing Version 2 to Version 1) [13].
                      Note, some of the changes represented in the
                      comparison are updates made by other ballots that
                      have since passed (e.g., SC-069).</span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)">- Ballot
                      Release #2 [14] (comparing Version 3 to Version 2)
                      [15]. Note, some of the changes represented in the
                      comparison are updates made by other ballots that
                      have since passed (e.g., SC-072).</span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"> </span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><b><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)">References</span></b><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)">:</span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)">[1]
                    </span><a
href="https://cabforum.org/wp-content/uploads/13-CAB-Forum-face-to-face-multiple-vantage-points.pdf"
                      moz-do-not-send="true"><span
                        style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://cabforum.org/wp-content/uploads/13-CAB-Forum-face-to-face-multiple-vantage-points.pdf</span></a></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)">[2]
                    </span><a
href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LTwtAwHXcSaPVSsqKQztNJrV2ozHJ7ZL/view?usp=drive_link"
                      moz-do-not-send="true"><span
                        style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LTwtAwHXcSaPVSsqKQztNJrV2ozHJ7ZL/view?usp=drive_link</span></a><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)"> </span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)">[3]
                    </span><a
href="https://medium.com/s2wblog/post-mortem-of-klayswap-incident-through-bgp-hijacking-en-3ed7e33de600"
                      moz-do-not-send="true"><span
                        style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://medium.com/s2wblog/post-mortem-of-klayswap-incident-through-bgp-hijacking-en-3ed7e33de600</span></a><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)"> </span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)">[4]
                    </span><a
href="https://www.coinbase.com/blog/celer-bridge-incident-analysis"
                      moz-do-not-send="true"><span
                        style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://www.coinbase.com/blog/celer-bridge-incident-analysis</span></a><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)"> </span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)">[5]
                    </span><a
href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity23/presentation/cimaszewski"
                      moz-do-not-send="true"><span
                        style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity23/presentation/cimaszewski</span></a><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)">  </span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)">[6]
                    </span><a
href="https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-15/materials/us-15-Gavrichenkov-Breaking-HTTPS-With-BGP-Hijacking-wp.pdf"
                      moz-do-not-send="true"><span
                        style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-15/materials/us-15-Gavrichenkov-Breaking-HTTPS-With-BGP-Hijacking-wp.pdf</span></a><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)"> </span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)">[7]
                    </span><a
href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity21/presentation/birge-lee"
                      moz-do-not-send="true"><span
                        style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity21/presentation/birge-lee</span></a><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)"> </span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)">[8]
                    </span><a
href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity18/presentation/birge-lee"
                      moz-do-not-send="true"><span
                        style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity18/presentation/birge-lee</span></a><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)"> </span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)">[9]
                    </span><a
href="https://security.googleblog.com/2023/05/google-trust-services-acme-api_0503894189.html"
                      moz-do-not-send="true"><span
                        style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://security.googleblog.com/2023/05/google-trust-services-acme-api_0503894189.html</span></a><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)"> </span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)">[10]
                    </span><a
href="https://github.com/ryancdickson/staging/pull/6"
                      moz-do-not-send="true"><span
                        style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://github.com/ryancdickson/staging/pull/6</span></a><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)"> </span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)">[11]
                    </span><a
href="https://github.com/ryancdickson/staging/pull/8"
                      moz-do-not-send="true"><span
                        style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://github.com/ryancdickson/staging/pull/8</span></a><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)"> </span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)">[12]
                    </span><a
href="https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/pull/487"
                      moz-do-not-send="true"><span
                        style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/pull/487</span></a><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)"> </span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)">[13]
                    </span><a
href="https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/6d10abda8980c6eb941987d3fc26e753e62858c0..5224983ef0a6f94c18808ea3469e7a5ae35746e5"
                      moz-do-not-send="true"><span
                        style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/6d10abda8980c6eb941987d3fc26e753e62858c0..5224983ef0a6f94c18808ea3469e7a5ae35746e5</span></a></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)">[14]
                    </span><a
href="https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/pull/507"
                      moz-do-not-send="true"><span
                        style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/pull/507</span></a><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)"> </span></p>
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style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)">[15]
                    </span><a
href="https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/5224983ef0a6f94c18808ea3469e7a5ae35746e5..2dcf1a8fe5fc7b6a864b5767ab1db718bc447463"
                      moz-do-not-send="true"><span
                        style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/5224983ef0a6f94c18808ea3469e7a5ae35746e5..2dcf1a8fe5fc7b6a864b5767ab1db718bc447463</span></a><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)"> </span></p>
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style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"> </span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(14,16,26)">The following
                      motion has been proposed by Chris Clements and
                      Ryan Dickson of Google (Chrome Root Program) and
                      endorsed by Aaron Gable (ISRG / Let’s Encrypt) and
                      Wayne Thayer (Fastly). </span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"> </span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><b><span
                        style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">—
                        Motion Begins —</span></b></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"> </span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
                      style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">This
                      ballot modifies the “Baseline Requirements for the
                      Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted TLS
                      Server Certificates” (“Baseline Requirements”),
                      based on Version 2.0.4.</span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"> </span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
                      style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">MODIFY
                      the Baseline Requirements as specified in the
                      following Redline:</span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><a
href="https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/c4a34fe2292022e0a04ba66b5a85df75907ac2a2..2dcf1a8fe5fc7b6a864b5767ab1db718bc447463"
                      moz-do-not-send="true"><span
                        style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/c4a34fe2292022e0a04ba66b5a85df75907ac2a2..2dcf1a8fe5fc7b6a864b5767ab1db718bc447463</span></a><span
                      style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"> </span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><b><span
                        style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">—
                        Motion Ends —</span></b></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"> </span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
                      style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">This
                      ballot proposes a Final Maintenance Guideline. The
                      procedure for approval of this ballot is as
                      follows:</span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"> </span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><b><span
                        style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Discussion
                        (at least 11 days)</span></b></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
                      style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">-
                      Start: 2024-05-20 14:30:00 UTC</span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
                      style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">-
                      End no earlier than: 2024-05-31 14:30:00 UTC</span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"> </span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><b><span
                        style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Vote
                        for approval (7 days)</span></b></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
                      style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">-
                      Start: TBD</span></p>
                  <p style="margin:0cm"><span
                      style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">-
                      End: TBD</span></p>
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