[Cscwg-public] Parking Lot 11.2 - Verified Method of Communication

[Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA)]

On 2020-06-11 11:42 μ.μ., Bruce Morton via Cscwg-public wrote:
>
> I reviewed this issue and we might be able to address and add, if 
> required, immediately to the merged document.
>
> Verified Method of Communication is defined in section 11.5 of the EV 
> SSL Guidelines.
>
> The EV Code Signing Guidelines have a section called “11.5 
> Verification of Applicant’s Operational Existence” which references EV 
> SSL Guidelines section 11.5. So there was an error made and there is 
> some confusion as to which requirement was supposed to be referenced, 
> Operation Existence or Verified Method of Communication.
>
> The merged CS BR document assumed that the reference was supposed to 
> be to Operational Existence, so we changed the reference to section 
> 11.6 of the EV SSL Guidelines. This means that 11.5 Verified Method of 
> Communication is not referenced.
>
> Options:
>
>  1. No Change, which assumes that Verified Method of Communication
>     does not need to be referenced. As such, there would be no change
>     to CA processes.
>  2. Add a new section called “Verified Method of Communication” which
>     will reference EV SSL Guidelines section 11.5. This should have
>     minimal impact to CA processes as they will already have addressed
>     this issue if they issue EV SSL certificates.
>
> This could be addressed in the merged document before the ballot, as 
> this is really could have been resolved in the merger discussion.
>

I believe we should go with option number 2, because otherwise the EV 
Code Signing Certificates will not be aligned with the EV Guidelines for 
TLS, which was the original intent of the authors.

Dimitris.

> Bruce.
>
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