[cabfpub] Final Minutes for CA/Browser Forum Teleconference - October 3, 2019

Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA) dzacharo at harica.gr
Thu Oct 17 16:48:22 UTC 2019


These are the Final Minutes of the Teleconference described in the 
subject of this message.


    Attendees (in alphabetical order)

Ben Wilson (Digicert), Bruce Morton (Entrust Datacard), Chris Kemmerer 
(SSL.com), Daniela Hood (GoDaddy), Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA), Doug 
Beattie (GlobalSign), Dustin Hollenback (Microsoft), Enrico Entschew 
(D-TRUST), Gordon Bock (Microsoft), Inaba Atsushi (GlobalSign), India 
Donald (US Federal PKI Management Authority), Janet Hines (SecureTrust), 
Jos Purvis (Cisco Systems), Kenneth Myers (US Federal PKI Management 
Authority), Kirk Hall (Entrust Datacard), Li-Chun Chen (Chunghwa 
Telecom), Mads Henriksveen (Buypass AS), Michelle Coon (OATI), Mike 
Reilly (Microsoft), Neil Dunbar (TrustCor Systems), Niko Carpenter 
(SecureTrust), Rich Smith (Sectigo), Ryan Sleevi (Google), Shelley 
Brewer (Digicert), Timo Schmitt (SwissSign), Tobias Josefowitz (Opera 
Software AS), Trevoli Ponds-White (Amazon), Wayne Thayer (Mozilla), 
Wendy Brown (US Federal PKI Management Authority).


    Minutes


      1. Roll Call

The Chair took attendance.


      2. Read Antitrust Statement

The Antitrust Statement was read.


      3. Review Agenda

No changes to the agenda.


      4. Approval of minutes from previous teleconference

The minutes from the previous teleconference were approved and will be 
circulated to the public list.


      5. Forum Infrastructure Working Group update

Jos provided the update. Ballot Forum-10 has passed and the 
Infrastructure Working Group will be converted to a Forum subcommittee. 
The changes are already described in the ballot.

Converting the BRs to be "pandoc-friendly" was discussed in previous 
meetings. Jos has created a red-lined version of how this would look 
like and it was agreed to introduce these changes on a separate ballot 
and not in the "cleanup" ballot. Dimitris asked if this "pandoc 
friendly" view would be rendered correctly in the GitHub markdown 
viewer. Jos replied that he does not expect any issues with that as 
pandoc uses native features of markdown. He recommended members to check 
the final result of that pull request and if there are no issues, Jos 
can proceed with the ballot.

Jos mentioned that some maintenance work needs to take place on the 
server hosting the mailing list and asked when would that be best to 
happen. Reboots during voting periods should be avoided as much as 
possible. Members did not raise concerns over discussion periods because 
the proposer would be able to extend the discussion period for the time 
that the mailing list is unavailable before starting the voting period.

As a general case, Jos recommended that we declare a maintenance window 
on a monthly or quarterly basis on which day no voting can take place or 
if it in the middle of a voting period, that day does not count (the 
clock stops for 24 hours) for the 7-day voting period. That would be 
helpful to perform the necessary maintenance work and not risk of 
delivering people's votes. Ryan thought it was a great idea. Jos asked 
if this proposal would require a ballot. Kirk mentioned that if we are 
to add an extra day for voting as described and the Bylaws mentions 7 
days, that would probably require a change in the Bylaws. The 
alternative would require some coordination with the ballot proposers so 
they don't start a voting period that includes the maintenance window day.

Ryan said that we need to communicate this as clearly as possible and 
agrees with Kirk that adding a day would require a change to the Bylaws. 
We do have a procedure on the wiki on how to prepare a ballot and all 
the steps that take place, so this maintenance window "check" should be 
described in that procedure. Members should be periodically "reminded" 
of this maintenance window.

Wayne recommended we discuss this topic some more in the Infrastructure 
Working Group/Subcommittee because there might be alternative options 
that would be more flexible and solve the problem in better ways. He 
recommended that someone should declare the beginning and end of 
maintenance window to indicate that the mailing lists would be 
"unreliable" even if no voting took place.

Jos agreed to send a start and stop of this month's maintenance window 
and will bring it for discussion in the infrastructure subcommittee.


      6. Code Signing Working Group update

Bruce mentioned that the WG did not have a meeting last week so there is 
no report.


      7. Follow-up on new S/MIME WG Charter


It seems that there is some interest for this WG to move forward, the 
Forum received a question related to that. Dimitris will reach out to 
Tim and ask if he has any plans to move this forward. If he is 
overwhelmed with other work someone else should draft a charter and send 
it for discussion. We need something for the F2F.


      8. F2F 48 Agenda


The draft agenda is up on the wiki. Dimitris mentioned about the photo 
policy to be discussed. He also reserved a slot to discuss about Bylaws 
issues since there was no feedback on the mailing list. Members are 
requested to check and propose new items to discuss at the F2F.


      9. Any Other Business


None.


      10. Next call

October 17, 2019 at 11:00 am Eastern Time.


      Adjourned


      *F2F Meeting Schedule: *

  * 2019: November 5-7– Guangzhou (GDCA)
  * 2020: Feb18-20 Bratislava (Disig), June – Minneapolis (OATI),
    October – Tokyo (GlobalSign)
  * 2021: Feb-March Dubai (DarkMatter), June – Poland (Asseco-Certum),
    October [Open]
  * 2022: Mar-April New Delhi / Bengaluru (e-Mudhra), June - [Open],
    October [Open]

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