[cabfcert_policy] CA vs. CAO

[Dimitris Zacharopoulos]

First of all, sorry I missed the last call. This topic was discussed in 
previous F2F meetings and on several occasions. I believe that nobody 
wants to go over changing every document that has the term "CA" and 
change it to "CAO". If we are to do such a big change, I would vote to 
use the term "Trust Service Provider - TSP" in order to align with the 
European model.

The majority of the CAs and auditors have linked the term "CA" with an 
"organization". That's why it was agreed (on past meetings) that we will 
not try to change the meaning of the term "CA" to mean anything else but 
that of an organization. Instead, we would try to use this term 
consistently (to refer to an organization) and introduce changes to the 
other instances to mean something else. That would introduce fewer 
changes in the BRs and EV guidelines.


Dimitris.

On 21/11/2016 10:47 μμ, Ben Wilson wrote:
>
> On our most recent call, Peter Bowen and I again discussed use of “CA” 
> vs. something else.  (Back on May 5^th I sent out a proposed “straw 
> poll” to this group, but I don’t think I ever sent it to the public 
> list.) Peter and I like the term “CA Operator” or abbreviated, “CAO”.  
> The only downside, which is a big one – I’ll admit, is that  the term 
> “CA” seems to  be used pervasively within the Forum and elsewhere to 
> refer to  the entity that  operates a CA.
>
> Following our last call, I started to do a replacement of CA with CAO 
> to see how it would look/work, but I stopped because there would be 
> many instances to replace and I wanted to get more of a consensus 
> from  this group and potentially the public list.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Ben
>
>
>
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