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

[Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA)]

Reminder, voting ends tomorrow 25 May 2020 (15:00 UTC).



On 2020-05-18 6:30 μ.μ., Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA) via Public wrote:
>
> 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*
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> *Start time (15:00 UTC)*
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> *End time (15:00 UTC)*
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> Discussion (14 days)
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> 04 May 2020
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> 18 May 2020
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> Vote for approval (7 days)
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> 18 May 2020
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> 25 May 2020
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