[cabfpub] Ballot 161 - Notification of incorrect issuance

Doug Beattie doug.beattie at globalsign.com
Mon Feb 8 13:39:58 UTC 2016


GlobalSign Votes NO on Ballot 161.

Doug

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> bounces at cabforum.org] On Behalf Of Sigbjørn Vik
> Sent: Friday, January 29, 2016 2:32 AM
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> Subject: [cabfpub] Ballot 161 - Notification of incorrect issuance
> 
> Ballot 161 - Notification of incorrect issuance
> 
> Based on extensive discussions in the forum, Sigbjørn Vik from Opera
> proposes the following ballot, endorsed by Ryan Sleevi from Google and
> Gervase Markham from Mozilla.
> 
> -- MOTION BEGINS --
> 
> The following text is added as a sub-section to section 2.2 of the Baseline
> Requirements:
> 
> 2.2.1 Notification of incorrect issuance
> 
> In the event that a CA issues a certificate in violation of these requirements,
> the CA SHALL publicly disclose a report within one week of becoming aware
> of the violation. A link to the report SHALL simultaneously be sent to
> incidents at cabforum.org.
> 
> Effective 01-Jul-16, the CA SHALL in its Certificate Policy and/or Certification
> Practice Statement announce where such reports will be found. The location
> SHALL be as accessible as the CP/CPS.
> 
> The report SHALL publicize details about what the error was, what caused
> the error, time of issuance and discovery, and public certificates for all issuer
> certificates in the trust chain.
> 
> The report SHALL publicize the full public certificate, with the following
> exception: For certificates issued prior to 01-Mar-16 the report MAY truncate
> Subject Distinguished Name fields and subjectAltName extension values to
> the registerable domain name.
> 
> The report SHALL be made available to the CAs Qualified Auditor for the
> next Audit Report.
> 
> -- MOTION ENDS --
> 
> The review period for this ballot shall commence at 2300 UTC on 29 January
> 2016, and will close at 2300 UTC on 5 February 2016. Unless the motion is
> withdrawn during the review period, the voting period will start
> immediately thereafter and will close at 2300 UTC on 12 February 2016.
> 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:
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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.
> 
> --
> Sigbjørn Vik
> Opera Software
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