[cabfpub] Voting on Ballot 149 begins tomorrow

Thu Jul 9 07:44:42 UTC 2015

OpenTrust votes Yes.

Kind regards.

Remi.

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Subject: [cabfpub] Voting on Ballot 149 begins tomorrow

Voting on Ballot 149 (revision of our Bylaws on membership requirements) 
will begin tomorrow, July 3, at 18:00 UTC and will continue for a week.

As discussed earlier this week, at Rick Andrews’ suggestion we are also 
changing the existing phrase [CA applicant certificates must be accessible 
on the internet using] “any one of the mainstream browsers” to read  [CA 
applicant certificates must be accessible on the internet using] a browser 
created by a Browser member.   That change is shown in the revised Ballot 
language below, and in the attached pdf.

Kirk R. Hall

Operations Director, Trust Services

Trend Micro

+1.503.753.3088

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Kirk Hall of Trend Micro made the following motion and Jody Cloutier of 
Microsoft, Wayne Thayer of GoDaddy, and Dean Coclin of Symantec endorsed it:

Ballot 149:  Revisions to Forum Membership Bylaw 2.1

2.1  Qualifying for Forum Membership

(a) CA/Browser Forum members shall meet at least one of the following 
criteria.

(1) Issuing CA: The member organization operates a certification authority 
that has a current and successful WebTrust for CAs audit, or ETSI 102042 or 
ETSI 101456 audit report, prepared by a properly-qualified auditor, and that 
actively issues certificates to Web servers that are openly accessible from 
the Internet using any one of the mainstream browsers a browser created by a 
Browser member.  Applicants that are not actively issuing certificates but 
otherwise meet membership criteria may be granted Associate Member status 
under Bylaw Sec. 3.1 for a period of time to be designated by the Forum.

(2) Root CA: The member organization operates a certification authority that 
has a current and successful WebTrust for CAs audit, or ETSI 102042 or ETSI 
101456 audit report, prepared by a properly-qualified auditor, and that 
actively issues certificates to subordinate CAs that, in turn, actively 
issue certificates to Web servers that are openly accessible from the 
Internet using any one of the mainstream browsers a browser created by a 
Browser member.  Applicants that are not actively issuing certificates but 
otherwise meet membership criteria may be granted Associate Member status 
under Bylaw Sec. 3.1 for a period of time to be designated by the Forum.

(3) Browser: The member organization produces a software product intended 
for use by the general public for browsing the Web securely.

(b) Applicants should supply the following information:

(1) Confirmation that the applicant satisfies at least one of the membership 
criteria (and if it satisfies more than one, indication of the single 
category under which the applicant wishes to apply).

(2) URL of the current qualifying performance audit report.

(3) The organization name, as you wish it to appear on the Forum Web site 
and in official Forum documents.

(4) URL of the applicant's main Web site.

(5) Names and email addresses of employees who will participate in the Forum 
mail list.

(6) Emergency contact information for security issues related to certificate 
trust.

(7) Links or references to issued certificates that demonstrate compliance 
with all applicable certificate, CRL, and OCSP requirements.

(c) An Applicant shall become a Member once the Forum has determined by vote 
consensus among the Members during a teleconference or meeting that the 
Applicant meets all of the requirements of subsection (a) or, upon the 
request of any Member, by a Ballot among the Members. A vote of Acceptance 
by consensus shall be determined or a Ballot of the Members shall be held as 
soon as the Applicant indicates that it has presented all information 
required under subsection (b) and has responded to all follow-up questions 
from the Forum and the Member has complied with the requirements of Section 
5.5.

-- Motion Ends --

The review period for this ballot shall commence at 18:00 UTC on June 26, 
2015, and will close at 18:00 UTC on July 3, 2015. Unless the motion is 
withdrawn during the review period, the voting period will start immediately 
thereafter and will close at 18:00 UTC on July 10, 2015. 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/> 
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 greater than 50% of the votes cast by 
members in the browser category must be in favor. Also, at least seven 
members must participate in the ballot, either by voting in favor, voting 
against, or abstaining.

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