[Cscwg-public] Compliance dates

[Ben Wilson]

Should this email be sent to a broader group? It seems to apply to server
certificates, SMIME, netsec, root programs, etc.

On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 7:30 AM Tim Hollebeek via Cscwg-public <
cscwg-public at cabforum.org> wrote:

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> While people are under no obligation to follow my recommendations, I have
> been trying to encourage people to move towards a smaller number of
> compliance deadline dates, instead of various other alternative date
> selection algorithms that involve calendars and darts.  This would greatly
> assist everyone including CAs, root programs, and customers in keeping
> track of what needs to be changed by when.
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> It turns out that the 15th of odd months might be an idea to work
> towards.  It avoids the starts and ends of months (which are more likely to
> have holidays), and it seems to miss most of the problematic time periods
> like the winter holidays, Chinese new year, etc.
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> The preferred list would be:
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> January 15th, March 15th, May 15th, July 15th, September 15th, and
> November 15th.
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> None of these dates are ever more than 30 days away from any arbitrary
> deadline you might choose, so it might make sense to choose the closest one
> of these instead.
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> If people have alternative ideas or proposals, feel free, I just wanted to
> put something out there to start the discussion.
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> -Tim
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