[cabfpub] Ballot 145 - Operational Existence for Government Entities

[Enric Castillo]

ANF AC votes yes.

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El 19/02/2015 a las 10:43, Jeremy Rowley escribió:
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> Ballot 145 - Operational Existence for Government Entities
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> Reason
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> Because government entities aren’t operating as businesses, they are 
> often not listed with a QIIS, especially immediately after the entity 
> is created by either statute or order. The legal existence of these 
> entities is verifiable through a QGIS, but this source in many 
> countries (especially Arabic and African countries) does not always 
> list a date of creation of these entities. Operational existence 
> exists to ensure organizations aren’t fly-by-night scams/phishing 
> entities. With government entities, these same risks are not present 
> as they are created directly by government action.
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> Jeremy Rowley of DigiCert <https://www.cabforum.org/wiki/DigiCert> 
> made the following motion, which was endorsed by Rich Smith of Comodo 
> and Cecilia Kam of Symantec.
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> Motion begins
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> Effective immediately, section 11.6.1 is modified as follows:
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> 11.6.1 Verification Requirements.
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> The CA MUST verify that the Applicant has the ability to engage in 
> business by verifying the Applicant's, or Affiliate/Parent/Subsidiary 
> Company's, operational existence._The CA MAY rely on its verification 
> of a Government Entity’s legal existence under Section 11.2 as 
> verification of a Government Entity’s operational existence. _
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> Motion Ends
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> The review period for this ballot shall commence at 2200 UTC on 19 Feb 
> 2015, and will close at 2200 UTC on 26 Feb 2015. Unless the motion is 
> withdrawn during the review period, the voting period will start 
> immediately thereafter and will close at 2200 UTC on 5 Mar 2015. Votes 
> must be cast by posting an on-list reply to this thread.
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> 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 
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> period will be counted. Voting members are listed here: 
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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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