[cabfpub] Ballot 127 - Verification of Agency in EVG 11.7.2

[Ben Wilson]

This morning during our EV Working Group call we decided, just to be sure
that the proponents/endorsers were fully behind this, to re-announce the
review period on this ballot (even though we've received two votes in favor
and voting would have started this afternoon).   So please note the updated
voting deadlines below (which will be the same for Ballot 126, which I'll be
sending out shortly as well.)

This ballot was discussed previously by the EV Working Group and by the
group in attendance at the face-to-face in Eilat. 

Cecilia Kam of Symantec made the following motion and Jeremy Rowley of
Digicert and Kirk Hall of Trend Micro have endorsed it: 

Reasons for proposed ballot 

The EV Guidelines currently allow verification of agency through the
applicant's human resources department by calling an independently verified
telephone number and verifying employment. This process does not always work
smoothly. Often employment verification is outsourced to a third party
service provider, or HR person refuses to answer without taking specific
procedural steps, and CA ends up asking to speak with IT department or
managers within applicant's organization in order to obtain the needed
confirmation. 

The proponents of this ballot believe that the proposed modification to this
method of confirmation (contacting others within the applicant's
organization, in addition to HR) is sufficiently trustworthy. This would
still be performed by calling the applicant, at its publicly recognized
phone number, and verifying employment of the applicant representative
(Contract Signer or Certificate Approver) with someone other than the
individual about whom the information is sought. 

---MOTION BEGINS--- 

Subsection (2)(A) of section 11.7.2 of the Extended Validation Guidelines
(Acceptable Methods of Verification - Name, Title and Agency) would be
amended as follows: 

(2) Agency: The CA MAY verify the agency of the Contract Signer and the
Certificate Approver by: 

(A) Contacting the Applicant[STRIKE--'s Human Resources Department] by phone
or mail (at the phone number or address for the Applicant[STRIKE--'s Place
of Business,] obtained and verified in accordance with [STRIKE--these
Guidelines] section 11.10.4) and obtaining confirmation that the Contract
Signer and/or the Certificate Approver, as applicable, is an employee; or 
. . . 

Replacing the parentheses with commas, the resulting subsection 11.7.2(2)
would read as follows: 

(2) Agency: The CA MAY verify the agency of the Contract Signer and the
Certificate Approver by: 

(A) Contacting the Applicant by phone or mail, at the phone number or
address for the Applicant, obtained and verified in accordance with section
11.10.4, and obtaining confirmation that the Contract Signer and/or the
Certificate Approver, as applicable, is an employee; or 

---MOTION ENDS--- 

The review period for this ballot shall commence at 2200 UTC on Thursday,
July 3, 2014, and will close at 2200 UTC on Thursday, July 10, 2014. 

Unless the motion is withdrawn during the review period, the voting period
will start immediately thereafter and will close at 2200 UTC on Thursday,
July 17, 2014. Votes must be cast by posting an on-list reply to this
thread. 

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: https://cabforum.org/members/ 

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. Quorum is currently six
(6) members- at least six members must participate in the ballot, either by
voting in favor, voting against, or by abstaining for the vote to be valid. 

 

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