[Servercert-wg] Voting Begins: Ballot SC24 V2: Fall Cleanup

[Christopher Kemmerer]

SSL.com votes YES on Ballot SC24.

Regards,

csk

On 11/4/2019 11:01 PM, Wayne Thayer via Servercert-wg wrote:
>
> Ballot SC24: Fall Cleanup v2
>
>
> Purpose of Ballot:
>
>
> This ballot proposes to correct a number of minor errata that have 
> been discovered in the BRs and EVGLs. The specific list of changes and 
> motivations is as follows:
>
>
> To the BRs:
>
>  *
>
>     Remove overall ‘1 July 2012’ effective date for the BRs
>
>  *
>
>     Correct the authorized port descriptive label (http -> https)
>
>  *
>
>     Correct a few typos (contract -> contact, assigns -> assignees)
>
>  *
>
>     Clarify the Request Token should be documented in the CP/CPS (or a
>     document referenced from the CP/CPS)
>
>  *
>
>     Move the construction examples of a Request Token to the
>     definition of a Request Token
>
>  *
>
>     Remove the definition of Test Certificate, as it is no longer used
>     in the BRs
>
>  *
>
>     Correct some of our acronyms
>
>  *
>
>     Remove effective dates that are in the past
>
>  *
>
>     Remove validation methods that are no longer permitted
>
>      o
>
>         Note: This also involves typographical changes to section
>         3.2.2.4; the sections were inconsistent in their use of boiler
>         plate, and so this simply aligned the formatting and line
>         spacing, since this ballot is for changes that are
>         non-normative in impact
>
>  *
>
>     Correct some unnecessarily gendered language to be gender-neutral
>
>  *
>
>     Clarify that the usable OIDs in a certificatePolicies are what the
>     CA documents, and not simply restricted to a CA's own OID arc.
>
>      o
>
>         This is to make it clear that it's fine to use the
>         CABF-defined OIDs for DV/OV/IV/EV
>
>  *
>
>     Add the OID for organizationalUnitName, matching the rest of the
>     Subscriber DN documentation
>
>  *
>
>     Clean up the algorithm requirements
>
>      o
>
>         Section 6.1.5 is rewritten to reflect what is permitted. This
>         is especially important to clarify the requirements are about
>         when it's issued, and not simply the validity period expressed
>         in the certificate.
>
>      o
>
>         Section 7.1.3 is partially rewritten. The MUST NOT is still
>         kept, even though Section 6.1.5 clearly omits it, in order to
>         avoid any ambiguity.
>
>      o
>
>         It also removes the now-expired grandfathering for OCSP
>         responders.
>
>  *
>
>     Referring to “RFC5280” vs “RFC 5280”
>
> To the EVGs:
>
>  *
>
>     Unify the references to BRs to consistently say Baseline Requirements
>
>
>
> The following motion has been proposed by Wayne Thayer of Mozilla and 
> endorsed by Ryan Sleevi of Google and Jacob Hoffman-Andrews of Let’s 
> Encrypt.
>
>
>
> -- MOTION BEGINS --
>
>
> This ballot modifies the “Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and 
> Management of Publicly-Trusted Certificates” as defined in the 
> following redline, based on Version 1.6.6:
>
>
> https://github.com/cabforum/documents/compare/master@%7B10-25-19%7D...sleevi:2019-07-Cleanups@%7B10-25-19%7D
>
>
> This ballot modifies the “Guidelines for the Issuance and Management 
> of Extended Validation Certificates” as defined in the following 
> redline, based on Version 1.7.0:
>
>
> https://github.com/cabforum/documents/compare/master@%7B10-25-19%7D...sleevi:2019-07-Cleanups@%7B10-25-19%7D
>
>
> -- MOTION ENDS --
>
>
> This ballot proposes Final Maintenance Guidelines.
>
>
> The procedure for approval of this ballot is as follows:
>
>
> Discussion (7+ days)
>
>
> Start Time: 21-October 2019 18:00 UTC
>
>
> End Time: 05-November 2019 05:00 UTC
>
> Vote for approval (7 days)
>
>
> Start Time: 05-November 2019 05:00 UTC
>
>
> End Time: 12-November 2019 05:00 UTC
>
>
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-- 
Chris Kemmerer
Manager of Operations
SSL.com

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