[cabfcert_policy] [cabfpub] Policy Review Working Group's Pre-Ballot to Clarify Use of "CA"

[Dimitris Zacharopoulos]

On 9/2/2017 5:29 μμ, Dimitris Zacharopoulos via Public wrote:
>
> Thank you for the comments Gerv. We had a Policy Review WG today and 
> decided that it would be more clear and consistent if we used the 
> terms "Root CA Operator" and "Subordinate CA Operator" throughout the 
> document. That would make perfectly clear that we are referring to the 
> "CA" as an organization. We will update the draft ballot to include 
> this change.
>
> For section 6.2.6, we decided to keep the "Issuing" part. This will 
> also be updated in the draft ballot.
>
> Ben will circulate the updated draft ballot for further review by 
> members, and the official ballot will be submitted to the public list 
> as *ballot 188*, on Thursday February 16th after the regular CA/B 
> Forum teleconference. We welcome any comments from members.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Dimitris.
>

I reviewed the draft ballot and went through each change in the 
red-lined version provided by Ben on January 19th. I applied the changes 
for the "Subordinate CA Operator" and the "Issuing CA" as agreed. I also 
prepared the ballot with all changes introduced which is now on the wiki 
as ballot 188 
<https://www.cabforum.org/wiki/188%20-%20Clarify%20use%20of%20term%20%22CA%22%20in%20Baseline%20Requirements>.

In the attached red-lined version, I applied a "clean" diff between a 
word version of BRs v. 1.4.2 and the proposed changes, for when we 
submit the final ballot. Ben, please review the changes to make sure a 
separate pair of eyes goes through the updates.

When you think everything is in order, please re-submit the changes to 
the public list.


Best regards,
Dimitris.
>
> On 25/1/2017 7:21 μμ, Gervase Markham via Public wrote:
>> On 19/01/17 16:44, Ben Wilson via Public wrote:
>>> The Policy Review Working Group has completed its review of the
>>> Baseline Requirements for purposes of clarifying use of the term "CA"
>>> and related terminology.  Please review and comment on the following
>>> pre-ballot.  A redlined version of the Baseline Requirements is
>>> attached to facilitate your review and comment.
>> Thanks to the group for ploughing through this.
>>
>> * There is now a "Root CA Operator", and a "Subordinate CA", both of
>> which are organizations. This is particularly clear in the definition of
>> "Certification Authority", where it says:
>>
>>> The term applies equally to Root CA Operators and Subordinate CAs.
>> Is there a reason why these two terms were not made linguistically
>> parallel - i.e. either "Root CA" and "Subordinate CA", or "Root CA
>> Operator" and "Subordinate CA Operator"?
>>
>> * 6.2.6: Some but not all instances of the word "Issuing" have been
>> removed. Is that intentional?
>>
>>> I did want to highlight one of the proposed changes that is not
>>> related to "CA" terminology.   That proposed change is in Section
>>> 4.9.10.
>> This change seems fine to me.
>>
>> Gerv
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