[cabfpub] Draft Ballot to Reduce Insurance Requirements in Section 8.4 of EV Guidelines

[Chema López González]

I utterly agree with the new wording and requirements.

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*Chema López*
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On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 9:36 PM, Ben Wilson <ben at digicert.com> wrote:

> Here is a draft ballot that would reduce and simplify the insurance
> requirements in section 8.4 of the EV Guidelines.  It would:
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> 1-     eliminate the $2 million commercial general liability insurance
> requirement and replace it with ordinary casualty insurance (in whatever
> amount would be sufficient to repair CA systems);
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> 2-     replace third party coverage of $5 million US (nearly €3.7
> million) with a €2 million amount (a 46% reduction);
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> 3-     eliminate certain types of third party insurance that might be
> hard to obtain in various jurisdictions, such as professional liability,
> contractual liability, technology E&O, IP infringement, invasion of
> privacy, and advertising injury;
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> 4-     increase the number of potential insurers that CAs can use (any
> rated "good" by any well-recognized insurance rating service);
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> 5-     clarify that insurance must be global and cover the lifetimes of
> EV certificates issued; and
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> 6-     only recommend that a CA obtain additional insurance for damage to
> data or systems due to IT security failure, if such is available to the CA
> at reasonable cost.
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> I'm looking for additional comments and endorsers, and then I will add
> this to next week's agenda.
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> Thanks,
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> Ben
>
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