[cabfpub] Ballot 82 - Suspend IPR Agreement and Policy until governance revisions are complete

[Tim Moses]

Colleagues - Dean pointed out a mistake in my tally.  Trustis voted "ABSTAIN", not "YES".  I will post the corrected version to the Wiki - better be quick, though ;-).  All the best.  Tim.

From: public-bounces at cabforum.org [mailto:public-bounces at cabforum.org] On Behalf Of Tim Moses
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 10:47 AM
To: CABFPub
Subject: Re: [cabfpub] Ballot 82 - Suspend IPR Agreement and Policy until governance revisions are complete

Colleagues - I received "YES" votes from DigiCert, Identrust, Trustis and Entrust.

I received "NO" votes from Symantec, Mozilla, Trustwave, Microsoft, Izenpe, TrendMicro and GlobalSign.

I received "ABSTAIN" votes from Opera, Startcom, SSC, Comodo and QuoVadis.

13 CAs voted, so (in order for the motion to pass) nine or more would have had to be "YES" votes.  Four were "YES" votes.

Three browsers voted, so (in order for the motion to pass) two or more would have had to be "YES" votes.  None were "YES" votes.

Therefore the motion fails.

Best regards.  Tim.

From: public-bounces at cabforum.org<mailto:public-bounces at cabforum.org> [mailto:public-bounces at cabforum.org] On Behalf Of Tim Moses
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2012 2:53 PM
To: CABFPub
Subject: [cabfpub] Ballot 82 - Suspend IPR Agreement and Policy until governance revisions are complete


John Espinoza made the following motion and Tim Moses and Jeremy Rowley endorsed it:

... Motion begins....

The CAB Forum hereby suspends the IPR Agreement and Policy from going into effect on August 1, 2012, as currently scheduled.

Such suspension will endure until such time as the CAB Forum's governance revisions are complete.

Completion of the CAB Forum's governance revisions will be deemed to have occurred in the event of a final, formal vote under the normal voting procedures of the CAB Forum then in effect where such vote concludes in the approval of a new Guideline for organization governance or other form of organization governance reform agreement.

... Motion ends....

A vote in favor of the motion must indicate a clear 'yes' in the response.

A vote against must indicate a clear 'no' in the response. A vote to abstain must indicate a clear 'abstain' in the response. Unclear responses will not be counted. The latest vote received from any representative of a voting member before the close of the voting period will be counted.

Voting members are listed here:

http://www.cabforum.org/forum.html

with the addition of TrendMicro<https://www.cabforum.org/wiki/TrendMicro>.

In order for the motion to be adopted, two thirds or more of the votes cast by members in the CA category and one half or more of the votes cast by members in the browser category must be in favour. Also, at least seven members must participate in the ballot, either by voting in favour, voting against or abstaining.


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