[cabfpub] Ballot 133 - Insurance Requirements for EV Issuers

Håvard Molland haavardm at opera.com
Tue Oct 21 06:34:47 MST 2014


Opera abstains.

Regards,
Håvard



On 21. okt. 2014 15:27, Dean Coclin wrote:
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> Symantec votes YES.
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> Dean Coclin
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> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 21, 2014 2:56 AM
> *To:* eddy_nigg at startcom.org; ben.wilson at digicert.com; public at cabforum.org
> *Subject:* Re: [cabfpub] Ballot 133 - Insurance Requirements for EV 
> Issuers
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> Izenpe votes YES
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> *De:*public-bounces at cabforum.org <mailto:public-bounces at cabforum.org> 
> [mailto:public-bounces at cabforum.org] *En nombre de *Eddy Nigg
> *Enviado el:* lunes, 20 de octubre de 2014 18:21
> *Para:* Ben Wilson; CABFPub
> *Asunto:* Re: [cabfpub] Ballot 133 - Insurance Requirements for EV Issuers
>
> StartCom votes YES
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> On 10/08/2014 07:08 PM, Ben Wilson wrote:
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>     *Ballot 133 - Insurance Requirements for EV Issuers*
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>     The following motion has been proposed by Ben Wilson of Digicert
>     and endorsed by Atilla Biler of Turktrust and Dean Coclin of Symantec.
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>     *Purpose *
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>     The purpose of this ballot is to simplify the insurance
>     requirements in section 8.4 of the EV Guidelines by replacing
>     commercial general liability in (A) with an ordinary property
>     casualty insurance requirement and to simplify third party
>     liability coverage in (B) and reduce the required amount of that
>     coverage down to $3 million. This should make it easier for CAs to
>     obtain insurance required by the EV Guidelines.
>
>     *-- MOTION BEGINS -- *
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>     1. Amend the second paragraph of Section 8.1 as follows:
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>     If a court or government body with jurisdiction over the
>     activities covered by these Guidelines determines that the
>     performance of any mandatory requirement is illegal _or would
>     conflict with local law_, then such requirement is considered
>     reformed to the minimum extent necessary to make the requirement
>     valid and legal. This applies only to operations, orcertificate
>     issuances, _or insurance requirements___that are subject to the
>     laws of that jurisdiction. The parties involved SHALL notify the
>     CA / Browser Forum of the facts, circumstances, and law(s)
>     involved, so that the CA/Browser Forum may revise these Guidelines
>     accordingly.
>
>     2. Amend Section 8.4 as follows:
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>     *8.4.  Insurance *
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>     Each CA SHALL maintain the following insurance related to their
>     _its _respective performance and obligations under these Guidelines:
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>     _(A) Property insurance for casualty/perils of fire, water,
>     electrical failure, and natural disaster in sufficient amount to
>     cover damage or loss to physical assets used to issue and maintain
>     EV Certificates_,Commercial General Liability insurance
>     (occurrence form) with policy limits of at least two million US
>     dollars in coverage; and
>
>     (B) Professional Liability, Errors and Omissions insurance, with
>     policy limits of at least five _three _million US dollars in
>     coverage_, per claim and in the aggregate_, and including coverage
>     for (i) claims for _direct _damages arising out of an _negligent_
>     act, error, or omission, unintentional breach of contract, or
>     neglect in issuing or maintaining EV Certificates, and (ii) claims
>     for damages arising out of infringement of the proprietary rights
>     of any third party (excluding copyright, and trademark
>     infringement), and invasion of privacy and advertising injury.
>
>     _(1)_Such insurance_MUST NOT exclude coverage when providing
>     cryptographic, digital signature, or public key infrastructure
>     services; _
>
>     _and_
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>     _(2) Such insurance _must:
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>     _(i) be maintained for all periods during which an EV Certificate
>     issued by the CA is still valid (and if coverage is canceled or
>     not renewed, the CA shall purchase an extended reporting period
>     for such periods);_
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>     _(ii) include coverage for those territories where the CA provides
>     EV Certificates; and_
>
>     _(iii)_be with a company rated _good or better by Standard &
>     Poor's, A.M._ no less than A- as to Policy Holder’s Rating in the
>     current edition of Best's Insurance Guide_, Fitch, Moody's, DBRS,
>     Japan Credit Rating Agency, Creditreform, Scope Ratings, or
>     another similarly recognized insurance rating agency _(or with an
>     association of companies each of the members of which are so rated).
>
>     _If available at reasonable cost, a CA SHOULD maintain coverage
>     for damage or loss to data, software, systems, and for business
>     interruption due to IT security failure, malware, network attack,
>     criminal hacker, or theft. _
>
>     A CA MAY self-insure for liabilities that arise from such party's
>     performance and obligations under these Guidelines provided that
>     it has at least five hundred million US dollars in liquid _current
>     _assets based on audited financial statements in the past twelve
>     months, and a quick ratio (ratio of liquid _current_ assets to
>     current liabilities) of not less than 1.0.
>
>     *-- MOTION ENDS -- *
>
>     The review period for this ballot shall commence at 2200 UTC on
>     Wednesday, 8 October 2014, and will close at 2200 UTC on
>     Wednesday, 15 October 2014. Unless the motion is withdrawn during
>     the review period, the voting period will start immediately
>     thereafter and will close at 2200 UTC on Wednesday, 22 October
>     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/
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>     In order for the motion to be adopted, two thirds or more of the
>     votes cast by members in the CA category and greater than 50% of
>     the votes cast by members in the browser category must be in
>     favor. Quorum is currently nine (9) members– at least nine members
>     must participate in the ballot, either by voting in favor, voting
>     against, or abstaining.
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