[cabfpub] Ballot 145 - Operational Existence for Government Entities

[Robin Alden]

Comodo votes 'Yes'.

 

Regards
Robin Alden

Comodo

 

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Subject: [cabfpub] Ballot 145 - Operational Existence for Government
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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. 

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: 

11.6.1 Verification Requirements. 

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withdrawn during the review period, the voting period will start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. 

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 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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