[cabfpub] Ballot 111 - Accelerate Max Certificate Lifetime Reduction Timetable

[Ben Wilson]

CORRECTION:  Please note, I made a calendaring mistake in saying that the
ballot review period ends "Tuesday 5 December" (I meant to say "3 December")
and that voting ends Tuesday 12 December (I meant to say "10 December").

 

I think it is appropriate to take the date which is later, and arguably more
specific than the day of the week, for ending the review period and
establishing the voting period.  So, I'll restate the voting rules on this
ballot as follows:

 

 

The ballot review period will close at 2200 UTC on THURSDAY, 5 December
2013, at which time, the voting period will immediately start.  The voting
period will close at 2200 UTC on THURSDAY, 12 December 2013.  If the ballot
is modified during such voting period for reasons other than to correct
minor typographical errors, then the ballot will be deemed to have been
withdrawn.

 

Votes must be cast by posting an on-list reply to this thread.

 

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

 

A vote against the ballot 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

 

In order for the motion to be adopted, two thirds or more of the votes cast
by members in the CA category and more than one half of the votes cast by
members in the browser category must be in favor. Also, quorum is currently
set at 6 members-- at least 6 members must participate in the ballot, either
by voting in favor, voting against, or by abstaining for the vote to be
valid.

 

 

 

 

From: public-bounces at cabforum.org [mailto:public-bounces at cabforum.org] On
Behalf Of Ben Wilson
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 10:53 AM
To: public at cabforum.org
Subject: [cabfpub] Ballot 111 - Accelerate Max Certificate Lifetime
Reduction Timetable

 

Ballot 111 - Accelerate Max Certificate Lifetime Reduction Timetable

 

Gervase Markham (Mozilla) made the following motion, endorsed by Eddy Nigg
from StartCom and Ryan Hurst from Globalsign:

 

--- Motion begins ---

 

The CAB Forum wishes to take advantage of the /de facto/ deprecation of the
near-ubiquitous SHA-1 hash algorithm in the Web PKI and its 1 January 2017
retirement by accelerating the Forum's planned move to shorter maximum
certificate lifetimes, in order to attain a more agile certificate
ecosystem.

 

Therefore, effective immediately, the Baseline Requirements are altered as
follows:

 

Update section 9.4.1 to change both occurrences of "1 April 2015" to "1
April 2014".

 

Update the Relevant Compliance Dates table on page ii to change

2015-04-01 to 2014-04-01 in the appropriate line.

 

... Motion ends ...

 

The ballot review period comes into effect immediately upon posting today
(Tuesday, 26 November 2013) and will close at 2200 UTC on Tuesday, 5
December 2013.  Unless the ballot is withdrawn or modified during the review
period, the voting period will start immediately thereafter and will close
at 2200 UTC on Tuesday, 12 December 2013.  If the ballot is modified during
such voting period for reasons other than to correct minor typographical
errors, then the ballot will be deemed to have been withdrawn.

 

Votes must be cast by posting an on-list reply to this thread.

 

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

 

A vote against the ballot 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

 

In order for the motion to be adopted, two thirds or more of the votes cast
by members in the CA category and more than one half of the votes cast by
members in the browser category must be in favor. Also, quorum is currently
set at 6 members-- at least 6 members must participate in the ballot, either
by voting in favor, voting against, or by abstaining for the vote to be
valid.

 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.cabforum.org/pipermail/public/attachments/20131204/d4c8f535/attachment-0002.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/pkcs7-signature
Size: 5453 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.cabforum.org/pipermail/public/attachments/20131204/d4c8f535/attachment.p7s>