[cabfpub] Ballot 166: Membership requirement update

[Jacob Hoffman-Andrews]

Let's Encrypt votes YES.

On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 12:59 PM, Tim Hollebeek <THollebeek at trustwave.com>
wrote:

> I’ll note that this also clarifies that a Certificate Authority can’t
> simply point to its own test certificates as evidence that it actively
> issue certificates.
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> Someone asserted in Scottsdale that would be ok, an assertion I personally
> found rather odd and counter to the spirit of the requirement.
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> -Tim
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> *From:* public-bounces at cabforum.org [mailto:public-bounces at cabforum.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Dean Coclin
> *Sent:* Monday, March 21, 2016 3:53 PM
> *To:* CABFPub
> *Subject:* [cabfpub] Ballot 166: Membership requirement update
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> Ballot 166: Clarification of Membership Requirements
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> The following motion has been proposed by Dean Coclin of Symantec and
> endorsed by Gerv Markham of Mozilla and Kirk Hall of Trend Micro:
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> *Background:*
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> Section 2.1 (a)(1) says that Issuing CAs “actively issue certificates to
> Web servers…”
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> Section 2.1(b) of the bylaws lists the items needed in a membership
> application by CAs.
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> But that section does not ask the CA applicant to provide a 3rd party
> website where the CA/B Forum can validate that they are actively issuing
> certs to web servers.  We do however ask the applicant this question, after
> they have submitted their application. It would be helpful to have this in
> the bylaws so we don’t have to go back and ask every time.
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> -- MOTION BEGINS --
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> In CA/B Forum Bylaws, add under 2.1(b):
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> (7) The URL of at least one third party website that includes a
> certificate issued by the Applicant in the certificate chain.
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> -- MOTION ENDS –
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