[Servercert-wg] Voting Begins: Ballot SC23 V3: Precertificates

[Neil Dunbar]

TrustCor votes YES on Ballot SC23, version 3.

Regards,

Neil

> On 7 Nov 2019, at 03:02, Wayne Thayer via Servercert-wg <servercert-wg at cabforum.org> wrote:
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> Purpose of Ballot:
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> This ballot intends to clarify requirements placed on Precertificates in BR section 4.9.10. 
> 
> During a lengthy discussion on the mozilla.dev.security.policy forum [1], it was discovered that BR section 4.9.10 combined with BR section 7.1.2.5 prevents a CA from responding “good” for a precertificate. This is a problem because there is no guarantee that a certificate corresponding to a Precertificate has not been issued, resulting in root store policies such as [2] that require CAs to treat the existence of a Precertificate as a presumption that a corresponding certificate has been issued and thus that a valid OCSP response is required.
> 
> This ballot intends to resolve the problem by clarifying in the BRs that a CA may provide revocation information for the serial number contained in a Precertificate.
> 
> [1] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.security.policy/LC_y8yPDI9Q/NbOmVB77AQAJ <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.security.policy/LC_y8yPDI9Q/NbOmVB77AQAJ>
> [2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA/Required_or_Recommended_Practices#Precertificates <https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA/Required_or_Recommended_Practices#Precertificates>
> 
> The following motion has been proposed by Wayne Thayer of Mozilla and endorsed by Jeremy Rowley of DigiCert and Rob Stradling of Sectigo.
> 
> 
> -- MOTION BEGINS --
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> This ballot modifies the “Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted Certificates” as follows, based on Version 1.6.6, or based on Version 1.6.6 as modified by ballot SC24:
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> ADD a reference to section 1.6.3 of the Baseline Requirements as defined in the following redline:
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> https://github.com/cabforum/documents/compare/master@%7B10-23-19%7D...sleevi:2019-10-OCSP <https://github.com/cabforum/documents/compare/master@%7B10-23-19%7D...sleevi:2019-10-OCSP>
> REPLACE section 4.9.10 of the Baseline Requirements in its entirety as defined in the following redline:
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> https://github.com/cabforum/documents/compare/master@%7B10-23-19%7D...sleevi:2019-10-OCSP <https://github.com/cabforum/documents/compare/master@%7B10-23-19%7D...sleevi:2019-10-OCSP>
> -- MOTION ENDS --
> 
> This ballot proposes a Final Maintenance Guideline.
> 
> The procedure for approval of this ballot is as follows:
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> Discussion (7+ days)
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> Start Time: 3-October 2019 18:00 UTC
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> End Time: 07-November 2019 03:00 UTC
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> Vote for approval (7 days)
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> Start Time: 07-November 2019 03:00 UTC
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> End Time: 14-November 2019 03:00 UTC
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