[cabfcert_policy] CA vs. CAO

[Moudrick M. Dadashov]

Hi Peter,

actually the term "Certification service provider" is no longer used and 
replaced by far more generic “Trust Service Provider”.

Thanks,
M.D.

On 11/22/2016 9:13 PM, Peter Bowen wrote:
> +1
>
> It looks like “Certification Service Provider” and “Trust Service 
> Provider” have specific meanings in EU directives and regulations, so 
> I think we should avoid these terms
>
>> On Nov 22, 2016, at 7:20 AM, Tim Hollebeek <THollebeek at trustwave.com 
>> <mailto:THollebeek at trustwave.com>> wrote:
>>
>> I agree with this, though I would oppose TSP on the grounds that it 
>> introduces a potential for confusion between a European term that has 
>> a very specific meaning, and the more generic definition of a CA.
>> -Tim
>> *From:*Policyreview [mailto:policyreview-bounces at cabforum.org]*On 
>> Behalf Of*Dimitris Zacharopoulos
>> *Sent:*Monday, November 21, 2016 4:11 PM
>> *To:*Ben Wilson;policyreview at cabforum.org 
>> <mailto:policyreview at cabforum.org>
>> *Subject:*Re: [cabfcert_policy] CA vs. CAO
>>
>>
>> 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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