[cabfpub] Application for SHA-1 Issuance

[Dean Coclin]

Gerv,

As you know, the procedure proposed by Google was discussed in Bilbao end of 
May and was released in draft form on June 3rd. Then there was quite a bit of 
discussion followed by a meeting (call) attended by industry representatives 
on June 23rd (the minutes of which were not publicized until July 7th). While 
it was hoped that Google would adjust the procedure, it was clear after that 
meeting that no further adjustments would be made. Representatives of the 
company began writing up their application which needed to be approved by 
several layers in their organization. As you can imagine, it took time to get 
all the approvals. Lastly, we had to do the key ceremony which as everyone now 
knows, didn't go so well the first time. So yes, we could have sent it a few 
days earlier but not months earlier.

Thanks
Dean

-----Original Message-----
From: Gervase Markham [mailto:gerv at mozilla.org]
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2016 10:05 AM
To: Dean Coclin <Dean_Coclin at symantec.com>; public at cabforum.org
Subject: Re: [cabfpub] Application for SHA-1 Issuance

On 16/07/16 00:48, Dean Coclin wrote:
> Enclosed please find the application for SHA-1 issuance presented on
> behalf of our client. Note that the application was fully completed by the 
> client.

The date today is 18th July 2016. The new SHA-1 certificates are apparently 
needed by 31st July 2016 - less than two weeks away. Several months ago, when 
the first of these problems hit, there was a similarly short deadline and I 
(and perhaps other browser vendors) said that we would be very displeased if 
further requests emerged with short deadlines - particularly if the problem 
had been known about for some time - because it would look very like we were 
being bounced into saying Yes.

Is there an explanation of why this request is appearing so close to the 
deadline?

Gerv

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