[cabfpub] Bylaws: Update Membership Criteria (section 2.1)

[Ryan Sleevi]

On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 12:42 PM Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA) <
dzacharo at harica.gr> wrote:

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> On 8/2/2019 6:34 μ.μ., Ryan Sleevi wrote:
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> On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 3:19 AM Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA) via Public <
> public at cabforum.org> wrote:
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>> I made the following updates in addition to Wayne's:
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>>    - Added a process for Interested Party application to CWGs as it
>>    seemed to be missing from the Bylaws. The only reference we currently have
>>    is on the web site (https://cabforum.org/email-lists/).
>>    - For the Server Certificate Working Group membership criteria, I
>>    tried to align with section 8.4 of the BRs.
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>> I'm hoping this is unintentional, but this is not a good change. This has
> been discussed repeatedly in the Forum, and moving to a more restrictive
> policy for membership in the charter has been regularly rejected.
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> I don't recall Members being against it for membership criteria, because
> it was discussed in the past without objections. This was for consistency
> with ETSI because ETSI EN 319 411-1 includes the baseline requirements and
> network security guidelines where WebTrust for CAs does not. This change
> better aligns the two schemes and was discussed in ballot 223
> <https://cabforum.org/2018/05/16/ballot-223-update-br-section-8-4-for-caaudit-criteria/>.
> Do other Members have similar concerns with this issue? I would appreciate
> it if others can also state their objection and concerns with this change.
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I'll dig up the multiple past discussions of concerns.


> My hope is that, as proposer of those changes on the doc, you can go
> through and reject them or update them to ensure that our current approach
> for the SCWG remains as is.
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> Can you explain why there should be a difference between the Baseline
> Requirements section 8.4 and the server certificate working group
> membership criteria? Since these are accepted in the BRs, it makes sense to
> me to also be updated in the Membership criteria for the Server Certificate
> Working Group.
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I'll dig up the multiple past discussions of concerns.
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