[cabfpub] Ballot 161 - Notification of incorrect issuance

Eneli Kirme Eneli.Kirme at sk.ee
Wed Feb 10 12:03:44 UTC 2016


Hi, 

Sertifitseerimiskeskus votes 'no’.


For clarification, we are not against the original idea but against too broad wording and possible various interpretations.


Best regards, 

Eneli Kirme

Business Development Manager
Certification Centre / AS Sertifitseerimiskeskus
+372 53443335
eneli.kirme at sk.ee


> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: public-bounces at cabforum.org [mailto:public-
>> bounces at cabforum.org] On
>> Behalf Of Sigbjørn Vik
>> Sent: Friday, January 29, 2016 2:32 AM
>> To: public at cabforum.org
>> 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 withdrawn during the review period, the voting period will start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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