[cabfpub] [cabfman] Voting has started on Ballot 181 - ends January 7

Ryan Sleevi sleevi at google.com
Sat Jan 7 13:00:09 MST 2017


Google votes YES

On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 4:40 PM, Kirk Hall <Kirk.Hall at entrustdatacard.com>
wrote:

> *The voting period for Ballot 181 has started*, and will continue until *January
> 7, 2017 at 22:00 UTC*.  The ballot is shown below.  Please vote this week
> on this ballot and also on Ballot 180.  Bylaw 2.2(d) says “All voting
> will take place online via the members’ electronic mailing list”, so voting
> should take place on the management list, management at cabforum.org.
>
>
>
>
>
> *Ballot 181 – Readopting BR 3.2.2.4 (Part 1)*
>
>
>
> The following motion has been proposed by Kirk Hall of Entrust and
> endorsed by Peter Bowen of Amazon and Virginia Fournier of Apple as a Final
> Guideline:
>
>
>
> -- MOTION BEGINS –
>
>
>
> In accordance with the Bylaws and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
> Policy of the CA/Browser Forum (the “Forum”), the Forum Baseline
> Requirements (BR) and Extended Validation Guidelines (EVGL), as previously
> approved by all ballots up to and including Ballot 176, are hereby
> readopted by this Ballot, with the following amendments.
>
>
>
> 1.  BR 3.2.2.4 is amended to read in its entirety as follows:
>
>
>
> *3.2.2.4 Validation of Domain Authorization or Control*
>
>
>
> This section defines the permitted processes and procedures for validating
> the Applicant's ownership or control of the domain.
>
>
>
> The CA SHALL confirm that, as of the date the Certificate issues, either
> the CA or a Delegated Third Party has validated each Fully-Qualified Domain
> Name (FQDN) listed in the Certificate using at least one of the methods
> listed below.
>
>
>
> Completed confirmations of Applicant authority may be valid for the
> issuance of multiple certificates over time. In all cases, the confirmation
> must have been initiated within the time period specified in the relevant
> requirement (such as Section 3.3.1 of this document) prior to certificate
> issuance. For purposes of domain validation, the term Applicant includes
> the Applicant's Parent Company, Subsidiary Company, or Affiliate.
>
>
>
> Note: FQDNs may be listed in Subscriber Certificates using dNSNames in the
> subjectAltName extension or in Subordinate CA Certificates via dNSNames in
> permittedSubtrees within the Name Constraints extension.
>
>
>
> *3.2.2.4.1 [Reserved] *
>
>
>
> *3.2.2.4.2 [Reserved] *
>
>
>
> *3.2.2.4.3 [Reserved]*
>
>
>
> *3.2.2.4.4 [Reserved]*
>
>
>
> *3.2.2.4.5 Domain Authorization Document*
>
>
>
> Confirming the Applicant's control over the requested FQDN by relying upon
> the attestation to the authority of the Applicant to request a Certificate
> contained in a Domain Authorization Document. The Domain Authorization
> Document MUST substantiate that the communication came from the Domain
> Contact. The CA MUST verify that the Domain Authorization Document was
> either (i) dated on or after the date of the domain validation request or
> (ii) that the WHOIS data has not materially changed since a previously
> provided Domain Authorization Document for the Domain Name Space.
>
>
>
> *3.2.2.4.6 Agreed-Upon Change to Website*
>
>
>
> Confirming the Applicant's control over the requested FQDN by confirming
> one of the following under the "/.well-known/pki-validation" directory, or
> another path registered with IANA for the purpose of Domain Validation, on
> the Authorization Domain Name that is accessible by the CA via HTTP/HTTPS
> over an Authorized Port:
>
>
>
> 1.     The presence of Required Website Content contained in the content
> of a file or on a web page in the form of a meta tag. The entire Required
> Website Content MUST NOT appear in the request used to retrieve the file or
> web page, or
>
>
>
> 2.     The presence of the Request Token or Request Value contained in
> the content of a file or on a webpage in the form of a meta tag where the
> Request Token or Random Value MUST NOT appear in the request.
>
>
>
> If a Random Value is used, the CA or Delegated Third Party SHALL provide a
> Random Value unique to the certificate request and SHALL not use the Random
> Value after the longer of (i) 30 days or (ii) if the Applicant submitted
> the certificate request, the timeframe permitted for reuse of validated
> information relevant to the certificate (such as in Section 3.3.1 of these
> Guidelines or Section 11.14.3 of the EV Guidelines).
>
>
>
> Note: Examples of Request Tokens include, but are not limited to: (i) a
> hash of the public key; (ii) a hash of the Subject Public Key Info [X.509];
> and (iii) a hash of a PKCS#10 CSR. A Request Token may also be concatenated
> with a timestamp or other data. If a CA wanted to always use a hash of a
> PKCS#10 CSR as a Request Token and did not want to incorporate a timestamp
> and did want to allow certificate key re-use then the applicant might use
> the challenge password in the creation of a CSR with OpenSSL to ensure
> uniqueness even if the subject and key are identical between subsequent
> requests. This simplistic shell command produces a Request Token which has
> a timestamp and a hash of a CSR. E.g. echo date -u +%Y%m%d%H%M sha256sum
> <r2.csr | sed "s/[ -]//g" The script outputs: 201602251811c9c863405fe7675a39
> 88b97664ea6baf442019e4e52fa335f406f7c5f26cf14f The CA should define in
> its CPS (or in a document referenced from the CPS) the format of Request
> Tokens it accepts.
>
>
>
> *3.2.2.4.7 [Reserved]*
>
>
>
> *3.2.2.4.8 [Reserved]*
>
>
>
> *3.2.2.4.9 [Reserved]*
>
>
>
> *3.2.2.4.10. TLS Using a Random Number*
>
>
>
> Confirming the Applicant's control over the requested FQDN by confirming
> the presence of a Random Value within a Certificate on the Authorization
> Domain Name which is accessible by the CA via TLS over an Authorized Port.
>
>
>
> *3.2.2.4.11 Other Methods*
>
>
>
> The CA SHALL confirm that, as of the date the Certificate issues, either
> the CA or a Delegated Third Party has validated each Fully-Qualified Domain
> Name (FQDN) listed in the Certificate by using any method of
> confirmation, provided that the CA maintains documented evidence that the
> method of confirmation establishes that the Applicant is the Domain Name
> Registrant or has control over the Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN).
>
>
>
> In the event that this Ballot and Ballot 180 are both approved by the
> Forum, the provisions of this Ballot shall supersede and replace any
> conflicting provisions of Ballot 180.
>
>
>
> The proposer and endorsers of this Ballot may withdraw this Ballot at any
> time prior to completion of the final vote for approval, in which case the
> Ballot will not proceed further.
>
>
>
> *-- MOTION ENDS – *
>
>
>
> The procedure for this Maintenance Guideline ballot is as follows (exact
> start and end times may be adjusted to comply with applicable Bylaws and
> IPR Agreement):
>
>
>
> BALLOT 181
>
> Status: Final Guideline
>
> Start time (22:00 UTC)
>
> End time (22:00 UTC)
>
> Discussion (7 days)
>
> Oct. 25, 2016
>
> Nov. 1, 2016
>
> Review Period (Chair to send Review Notice) (60 days).
>
> If Exclusion Notice(s) filed, PAG to be created and no further action
> until PAG recommendations received.
>
> If no Exclusion Notice(s) filed, proceed to:
>
> Nov. 1, 2016
>
> Dec. 31, 2016
>
> Vote for approval (7 days)
>
> Dec. 31, 2016
>
> Jan. 7, 2017
>
>
>
> 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 currently
> ten (10) members – at least ten members must participate in the ballot,
> either by voting in favor, voting against, or abstaining.
>
>
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