[cabfpub] Voting Results Announcement for FORUM-17-Amended

Ben Wilson bwilson at mozilla.com
Mon Jan 17 19:01:01 UTC 2022


Did anyone else want to declare their membership in this new NetSec WG (by
sending a declaration of intent to participate to the questions list)?  I
think we were planning on having the first meeting tomorrow, and we'll be
sending out a new meeting invite.

On Tue, Dec 28, 2021 at 8:18 AM Dean Coclin via Public <public at cabforum.org>
wrote:

> Slight correction to the voting results: the number of CAs voting yes is
> 22, not 23. The error was in the first bullet below.
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> Dean Coclin
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> *From:* Public <public-bounces at cabforum.org> *On Behalf Of *Dean Coclin
> via Public
> *Sent:* Monday, December 27, 2021 6:13 PM
> *To:* CABforum1 <public at cabforum.org>
> *Subject:* [cabfpub] Voting Results Announcement for FORUM-17
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> The voting on ballot FORUM-17 has completed, and the ballot has passed.
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> Voting Results
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> Certificate Issuers
>
> 22 votes total, with no abstentions:
>
>    - 23 22 Yes votes: Buypass, Certum (Asseco), D-TRUST, DigiCert, Disig,
>    eMudhra, Entrust, E-TUGRA, GDCA, GlobalSign, GoDaddy, HARICA, JPRS, Let's
>    Encrypt/ISRG, MSC Trustgate, OISTE, SECOM, Sectigo, SSL.com, SwissSign,
>    Telia Company, SecureTrust,
>    - 0 No Votes
>    - 0 Abstentions
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> NOTE: A vote placed by GlobalTrust was not received on the public list and
> will not be counted.
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> Certificate Consumers
>
> 2 votes total, with no abstentions:
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>    - 2 Yes votes: Google, Mozilla,
>    - 0 No votes
>    - 0 Abstentions
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> Bylaw Requirements
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> 1.     Bylaw 2.3(f) requires:
>
> A "yes" vote by two-thirds of Certificate Issuer votes and by 50%-plus-one
> of Certificate Consumer votes. Votes to abstain are not counted for this
> purpose.
> *This requirement was MET for Certificate Issuers and MET for Certificate
> Consumers.*
>
> At least one Certificate Issuer and one Certificate Consumer Member must
> vote in favor of a ballot for the ballot to be adopted.
> *This requirement was MET.*
>
> 2.    Bylaw 2.3(g) requires that a ballot result only be considered valid
> when “more than half of the number of currently active Members has
> participated”. Votes to abstain are counted in determining quorum. Half of
> the currently active members at the start of voting was 14, so the quorum
> was 15 for this ballot.
> *This requirement was MET.*
>
>
> -----  NEXT STEPS - INSTRUCTIONS FOR CA/BROWSER FORUM MEMBERS -----
>
> Existing CA/Browser Forum members must declare their intent to participate
> in the NetSec WG by email to questions at cabforum.org, including a
> statement of the Voting Class by which they qualify and the names/email
> addresses of their designated representatives who will participate and who
> will vote. We recommend that this be done by January 15, 2022.
>
> Once declarations of participation have been gathered, the NetSec WG’s
> acting chair will convene a meeting tentatively scheduled for Tuesday,
> January 18, 2022, at 2 PM EDT, the agenda for which will include:
> -       Adopting a list of initial members from the list of proposed,
> qualifying applicants in conformance with the NetSec WG Charter
> -       Appointing a Chair, Vice Chair, and Webmaster for the NetSec WG
>
> -       Discuss the WG’s first ballot – adoption of the Network and
> Certificate System Security Requirements (NCSSRs) and the IPR review period
> -       Outline the goals and deliverables of the NetSec WG
>
>
>
> In the interim, the NCSSRs remain a valid guideline of the CA/Browser
> Forum. Existing members of the working groups that have adopted the current
> NCSSRs are bound by the IPR Policy’s Royalty-Free license.
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