[cabfpub] Voting Results on Ballot 188 - Clarify use of term "CA" in Baseline Requirements

Kirk Hall Kirk.Hall at entrustdatacard.com
Sat Mar 4 01:52:03 UTC 2017


Results on Ballot 188

The voting period for Ballot 188 has ended.  Here are the results.

Voting by CAs - 10 votes total including abstentions

3 Yes votes: Digicert, HARICA, and SwissSign
6 No votes: Entrust, GlobalSign, Symantec, Cisco, GDCA, and SHECA
1 Abstain: ANF Autoridad de Certificación
33.33% of voting CAs voted in favor

Voting by browsers - 2 votes total including abstentions

0 Yes votes:
2 No votes: Mozilla, Google
0 Abstain:
0% of voting browsers voted in favor

Under Bylaw 2.2(g), a ballot result will be considered valid only when more than half of the number of currently active Members has participated. Votes to abstain are counted in determining a quorum.  Half of currently active Members as of the start of voting is 10, so quorum was 11 votes - quorum was met.

Bylaw 2.2(f) requires a yes vote by two-thirds of CA votes and 50%-plus-one browser votes for approval.  Votes to abstain are not counted for this purpose.  This requirement was not met for either CAs or browsers.

At least one CA Member and one browser Member must vote in favor of a ballot for the ballot to be adopted.  This requirement was not met.

The ballot fails.


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