[Servercert-wg] Ballot SC23 v3: Precertificates

[Wayne Thayer]

On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 11:10 PM Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA) <
dzacharo at harica.gr> wrote:

> Wayne,
>
> Could you possibly send the red-line links that compares the document
> side-by-side as the "rich diff" doesn't render?
>
>
As best I can tell, GitHub doesn't allow you to set the display format to
"source diff" (side-by-side) via the URL, but the link in the ballot
renders as a source diff by default (i.e. when opened in a new private
browsing window).


> Thank you,
> Dimitris.
>
> On 29/10/2019 5:45 π.μ., Wayne Thayer via Servercert-wg wrote:
>
> Here is v3 of the Precertificates ballot, based on Ryan Sleevi's proposal.
> This email resets the discussion period as defined below.
> ==========================
>
> Ballot SC23 v3: Precertificates
>
> Purpose of Ballot:
>
> 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
>
> [2]
> 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 --
>
> 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:
>
> ADD a reference to section 1.6.3 of the Baseline Requirements as defined
> in the following redline:
>
>
> 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:
>
>
> 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:
>
> Discussion (7+ days)
>
> Start Time: 3-October 2019 18:00 UTC
>
> End Time: No earlier than 05-November 2019 04:00 UTC
>
> Vote for approval (7 days)
>
> Start Time: TBD
>
> End Time: TBD
>
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