[cabfpub] Vote Results on Ballot FORUM-022 - Establish Forum IPR Subcommittee

[Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA)]

The voting period for Ballot FORUM-022 has ended and *the Ballot has 
Passed.*Here are the results:


      *_Voting by Certificate Issuers – 21 votes total including
      abstentions_*

  * *21 Yes votes*: Buypass, Certum (Asseco), CommScope, DigiCert,
    Disig, eMudhra, Entrust, Fastly, GDCA, GlobalSign, GoDaddy, HARICA,
    JPRS, Kamu SM, OISTE, SECOM, Sectigo, SwissSign, Telia Company,
    TrustAsia, VikingCloud
  * *0 No votes*:
  * *0 Abstain*:

100% of voting Certificate Issuers voted in favor


      *_Voting by Certificate Consumers – 3 votes total including
      abstentions_*

  * *3 Yes votes*: Apple, Google, 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 *14*, so 
quorum was *15 votes *– _quorum was met_.
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