[cabfpub] **Voting has started on Ballot 212: Canonicalise formal name of the Baseline Requirements**

[cornelia.enke at swisssign.com]

SwissSign votes "Yes" on Ballot 212

 

Best Regards 

Conny Enke

 

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Sorry - voting began August 25 on this ballot, and will end on Friday, Sept.
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Ballot 212: Canonicalise formal name of the Baseline Requirements 

Purpose of Ballot: to make the formal name of the Baseline Requirements
document clear, as use is not currently consistent.

The following motion has been proposed by Gervase Markham of Mozilla and
endorsed by Jeremy Rowley of DigiCert and Ryan Sleevi of Google: 

-- MOTION BEGINS -- 

The official name of the Baseline Requirements document shall be 'The
Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted
Certificates'. Approved abbreviations for official use are "the Baseline
Requirements", and "the BRs".

Editors and maintainers of CAB Forum documents and websites are empowered to
update text under their control at any time to make this so.

-- MOTION ENDS -- 

The procedure for approval of this ballot is as follows: 

	
Start time (22:00 UTC) 

End time (22:00 UTC) 


Discussion (7 to 14 days) 

18 Aug

25 Aug


Vote for approval (7 days) 

25 Aug

1 Sep

			

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responses will not be counted. The latest vote received from any
representative of a voting member before the close of the voting period will
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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 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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