[cabfpub] Ballot 195 – CAA Fixup is in the DISCUSSION period (ends April 10)

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Von: Public [mailto:public-bounces at cabforum.org] Im Auftrag von Kirk Hall via Public
Gesendet: Montag, 10. April 2017 01:30
An: CA/Browser Forum Public Discussion List
Cc: Kirk Hall
Betreff: [cabfpub] Ballot 195 – CAA Fixup is in the DISCUSSION period (ends April 10)

Reminder: Ballot 195 – CAA Fixup is in the discussion period (ends April 10)

Ballot 195 - CAA Fixup
Purpose of Ballot: The CAB Forum recently passed ballot 187 to make CAA checking mandatory. This ballot corrects some wording issues in the text added by that ballot.
The following motion has been proposed by Gervase Markham of Mozilla and endorsed by Ryan Sleevi of Google and Jeremy Rowley of DigiCert:
-- MOTION BEGINS --
Change the following in section 3.2.2.8 of the Baseline Requirements:
1) Add a carriage return after "any other time."
2) Replace the sentence:
"CAs MUST process the issue, issuewild, and iodef property tags as specified in RFC 6844."
with:
"CAs MUST process the issue, issuewild, and iodef property tags as specified in RFC 6844, although they are not required to act on the contents of the iodef property tag."
3) Replace the sentence:
"CAs MUST respect the critical flag and reject any unrecognized properties with this flag set."
with:
"CAs MUST respect the critical flag and not issue a certificate if they encounter an unrecognized property with this flag set."
-- MOTION ENDS --


The procedure for approval of this Final Maintenance Guideline ballot is as follows (exact start and end times may be adjusted to comply with applicable Bylaws and IPR Agreement):



BALLOT 195

Status: Final Maintenance Guideline


Start time (23:00 UTC)


End time (23:00 UTC)


Discussion (7 to 14 days)


3rd April

10th April


Vote for approval (7 days)

10th April

17th April


If vote approves ballot: Review Period (Chair to send Review Notice) (30 days).

If Exclusion Notice(s) filed, ballot approval is rescinded and PAG to be created.

If no Exclusion Notices filed, ballot becomes effective at end of Review Period.

Upon filing of Review Notice by Chair

30 days after filing of Review Notice by Chair




>From Bylaw 2.3: If the Draft Guideline Ballot is proposing a Final Maintenance Guideline, such ballot will include a redline or comparison showing the set of changes from the Final Guideline section(s) intended to become a Final Maintenance Guideline, and need not include a copy of the full set of guidelines.  Such redline or comparison shall be made against the Final Guideline section(s) as they exist at the time a ballot is proposed, and need not take into consideration other ballots that may be proposed subsequently, except as provided in Bylaw Section 2.3(j).



Votes must be cast by posting an on-list reply to this thread on the Public list.  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 shown on CA/Browser Forum wiki.  Under Bylaw 2.2(g), at least the required quorum number must participate in the ballot for the ballot to be valid, either by voting in favor, voting against, or abstaining.

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