[cabfpub] [UPDATE 2] Vote Results on Ballot FORUM-020 v.2 - Amend Code Signing Certificate Working Group Charter

Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA) dzacharo at harica.gr
Mon Jan 15 16:57:31 UTC 2024


Here is another update, correcting the total number of votes of 
Certificate Issuers. We need to automate this report from the Member's 
tool soon :-)

Dimitris.


On 15/1/2024 3:29 μ.μ., Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA) wrote:
>
> Re-sending with corrected percentage of Certificate Issuers voting in 
> favor.
>
>
> The voting period for Ballot FORUM-020 v.2 - Amend Code Signing 
> Certificate Working Group Charter has ended and *the Ballot has 
> Passed.*Here are the results:
>
>
>       *_Voting by Certificate Issuers – 12 votes total including
>       abstentions_*
>
>   * *11 Yes votes*: CFCA, eMudhra, Entrust, Fastly, GDCA, GoDaddy,
>     HARICA, IdenTrust, Sectigo, SSL.com, Viking Cloud .
>   * *1 No votes*: DigiCert
>   * *0 Abstain*:
>
> 92% of voting Certificate Issuers voted in favor
>
>
>       *_Voting by Certificate Consumers – 1 votes total including
>       abstentions_*
>
>   * *1 Yes votes*: Mozilla
>   * *0 No votes*:
>   * *0 Abstain*:
>
> 100% of voting Certificate Consumers voted in favor
>
>
>       Relevant Bylaw references
>
> Bylaw 2.3(6) requires:
>
>   * a "yes" vote by two-thirds of Certificate Issuer votes and
>     50%-plus-one Certificate Consumer votes for approval.  Votes to
>     abstain are not counted for this purpose. This requirement _was
>     met for both Certificate Issuers and 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 also met_.
>
> Under Bylaw 2.3(7), "aballot result will be considered valid only when 
> more than half of the number of currently active Members has 
> participated". Votes to abstain are counted in determining a 
> quorum.Half of currently active Members as of the start of voting was 
> *12*, so quorum was *13 votes *– _quorum was met_.
>
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