[cabfpub] Voting Begins for ballot Forum-12 - Update CA/B Forum Bylaws

Mon May 18 15:30:17 UTC 2020

The following motion has been proposed by Dimitris Zacharopoulos of 
HARICA and endorsed by Mike Reilly of Microsoft and Tim Hollebeek of 
Digicert.

*Purpose of Ballot*:

The Forum has identified and discussed a number of improvements to be 
made to the current version of the Bylaws to improve clarity and allow 
the Forum to function more effectively. Most of these changes are 
described in the “Issues with Bylaws to be addressed 
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EtrIy3F5cPge0_M-C8J6fe72KcVI8H5Q_2S6S31ynU0>” 
document.

Here is a list of major changes:

 1.
    Clarified the use of the term “Member” so it is clear when we
    discuss about all Forum Members (which includes Associate Members
    and Interested Parties), and when we discuss about the “Voting
    Members”. Adding the word “Voting” in front of the word “Member”
    removes this ambiguity. Also, the term “Members” or “Forum Members”
    is now the union of “Voting Members”, “Associate Members” and
    “Interested Parties”.
 2.
    Added the term “Voting Representative” which is designated by each
    Member. Only votes submitted by Voting Representatives will be
    considered.
 3.
    Replaced “Forum wiki” with the properly defined term “Member Web Site”.
 4.
    Removed references for Webmaster in the definition of “Public Web
    Site” since it is repeated in section 5.2.
 5.
    Added the Photography Policy in Exhibit D.
 6.
    Clarify 4.1 (2) that Forum Members nominate representatives
 7.
    Allow Informative Changes to Guidelines
 8.
    In 5.3.1 require that a Certificate Issuer is trusted in the
    “latest” software produced by a Certificate Consumer
 9.
    In 4.1 the Chair is eligible to be elected as Chair after having
    vacated the position as Chair for at least one (1) term, instead of
    two (2) years.

*-- MOTION BEGINS --*

*Amendment to the Bylaws:* Replace the entire text of the Bylaws of the 
CA/Browser Forum with the attached version (CA-Browser Forum Bylaws 
v2.3.pdf).

*NOTE:* There are three redline versions:

 1.
    PDF (attached as "CA-Browser Forum Bylaws v2.3-redline.pdf")
 2.
    DOCX (attached as "CA-Browser Forum Bylaws v2.3-redline.docx")
 3.
    GitHub redline available at
    https://github.com/cabforum/documents/compare/fc63be73323195abc4e462708ca0385e37b7043d..a94d136c6ddbd0024e9bdc70785aa71f1e2f6753#diff-c2f0349076f544cc0e9f059f30f21a85

*-- MOTION ENDS --*

The procedure for approval of this ballot is as follows:

*Forum-12 - Update CA/B Forum Bylaws*

*Start time (15:00 UTC)*

*End time (15:00 UTC)*

Discussion (14 days)

04 May 2020

18 May 2020

Vote for approval (7 days)

18 May 2020

25 May 2020

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