[cabfpub] Voting begins for Ballot Forum-18 v3 - Update CA/B Forum Bylaws to version 2.5

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Chunghwa Telecom votes YES on ballot Forum-18 v3.

 

 

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From: Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA) via Public
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Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2023 5:43 PM
To: public at cabforum.org <mailto:public at cabforum.org> 
Subject: [cainfo : 5178] [cabfpub] Voting begins for Ballot Forum-18 v3 -
Update CA/B Forum Bylaws to version 2.5

 

This message begins the voting period for ballot Forum-18 v3.

Dimitris.


 


Purpose of the 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 efficiently. Most of these changes are described in the
“Issues with Bylaws to be addressed
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Here is a list of major changes:

1.	Clarified that it is not always required to “READ” the antitrust
statement before each meeting and added the option of reading a "note-well".
2.	Clarified where to send/post Chartered Working Group minutes.
3.	Increased the number of days before automatic failing a ballot from
21 to 90 days.
4.	Allow Chair or Vice-Chair to update links to other sections within a
document without a ballot.
5.	Applied grammatical and other language improvements.
6.	Clarified that Subcommittee minutes do not need to also be published
on the public web site.
7.	Created a new member category called "Probationary Member",
applicable to both Certificate Issuer and Consumer categories, and separated
"Associate Members - Certificate Issuers" from the "Associate Member"
category.
8.	Clarified language for Associate Members for consistency with
Probationary Member for the ballot proposals and endorsing.
9.	Removed the member category called "Root CA Issuer" and only kept
the "CA Issuer" category.
10.	Added a step to check the authority of the signer during membership
applications.
11.	Updated the Chartered Working Group template.
12.	Added some language to the Code of Conduct.
13.	Publishing private conversations without express permission is
considered a violation of the Code of Conduct.
14.	Updated the elections language as agreed at F2F#58.

The following motion has been proposed by Dimitris Zacharopoulos of HARICA
and endorsed by Ben Wilson of Mozilla and Paul van Brouwershaven of Entrust.

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
v2.5.pdf). 

NOTE: There are two redlines produced by GitHub

1.	Bylaws-redline.pdf (attached)
2.	GitHub redline available at
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MOTION ENDS

The procedure for this ballot is as follows:


Forum-18 v3 - Update CA/B Forum Bylaws to version 2.5

Start time (10:00 UTC)

End time (10:00 UTC)


Discussion (at least 7 days)

4 July 2023

11 July 2023


Expected Vote for approval (7 days)

13 July 2023

20 July 2023

 

	

 

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