[Servercert-wg] VOTING BEGINS: Ballot SC30v2: Disclosure of Registration / Incorporating Agency

[Ryan Sleevi]

Google votes YES to SC30v2

On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 10:20 AM Ryan Sleevi <sleevi at google.com> wrote:

> This begins the voting period for Ballot SC30v2: Disclosure of
> Registration / Incorporating Agency
>
>
> *Purpose of Ballot:*
> The EV Guidelines aim to ensure a consistent and repeatable level of
> validation for certificates, regardless of the CA performing the
> validation, providing Relying Parties consistency for all certificates
> complying with these Guidelines. Although the Guidelines attempt to specify
> objective requirements, areas remain that rely on a subjective
> determination by the CA. One such area is determining whether a given
> Incorporating Agency or Registration Agency fulfills these Requirements.
>
> As currently specified, it's possible for one CA to make a determination
> that a given Registration Agency or Incorporating Agency does meet the
> requirements of the EV Guidelines, while a different CA determines that
> same Agency does not. As the reliability of the information validated
> within the Certificate is tied to the reliability of the data source used
> to verify this information, this inconsistency undermines the assurance
> that EV Certificates are meant to provide.
>
> While there is utility in being able to identify precisely what
> datasource(s) were used with a given Certificate, this ballot does not
> involve such work. It merely seeks to ensure that, for any given
> Organization, it can be validated consistently and to the same degree,
> regardless of the CA, by working to achieve consistency among all CAs in
> their selection of data sources.
>
> Much like the work to remove “Any other method” from the validation of
> domain names, ensuring consistency, transparency, and objectivity in
> validating domain names, this ballot is the first step to doing the same
> for organization information.
>
> A potential roadmap of ballots to to address these issues involves:
>
>
>    - CAs publish the list of Registration Agencies / Incorporating
>    Agencies they use (this ballot)
>    - Create an allowed list of Registration Agencies / Incorporating
>    Agencies and associated values, along with a process for updating and
>    adding new ones, and requiring issuance exclusively use Agencies on this
>    list.
>    - If useful and relevant to Relying Parties, ensure each Certificate
>    can be tied back to their Registration Agency / Incorporating Agency, such
>    as disclosure within the Certificate itself, so they can unambiguously and
>    uniquely determine the organization that has been validated.
>
>
> A similar process may then be repeated for other forms of verification
> data sources, such as the QIIS, QTIS, and QGIS within the EV Guidelines, or
> the Reliable Data Sources within the Baseline Requirements.
>
> This was originally drafted in
> https://github.com/sleevi/cabforum-docs/pull/11 , and as a pull request
> is available at https://github.com/cabforum/documents/pull/194
>
> The difference between v1 of this ballot and v2 has been to modify the
> language to be clearer for those where English is not the first/primary
> language. The redline between v1 and v2 is available at
> https://github.com/cabforum/documents/pull/194/commits/4e8f16f16bf7ec92d9509976e843099091e4b5b7
>
> The following motion has been proposed by Ryan Sleevi of Google and
> endorsed by Ben Wilson of Mozilla and Dimitris Zacharopoulos of HARICA.
>
> *— MOTION BEGINS —*
>
> This ballot modifies the “Guidelines for the Issuance and Management of
> Extended Validation Certificates” (“EV Guidelines”) as follows, based on
> version 1.7.2:
>
> ADD a paragraph to Section 9.2.4 of the EV Guidelines as defined in the
> following redline:
> https://github.com/cabforum/documents/compare/d5067bbbfb46906c65e476ef3d55dd3b2c505a09..4e8f16f16bf7ec92d9509976e843099091e4b5b7
>
> ADD a paragraph to Section 9.2.5 of the EV Guidelines as defined in the
> following redline:
> https://github.com/cabforum/documents/compare/d5067bbbfb46906c65e476ef3d55dd3b2c505a09..4e8f16f16bf7ec92d9509976e843099091e4b5b7
>
> ADD a Section 11.1.3 to the EV Guidelines as defined in the following
> redline:
> https://github.com/cabforum/documents/compare/d5067bbbfb46906c65e476ef3d55dd3b2c505a09..4e8f16f16bf7ec92d9509976e843099091e4b5b7
>
> The Chair or Vice-Chair is permitted to update the Relevant Dates of the
> EV Guidelines as appropriate, such as in the following redline:
> https://github.com/cabforum/documents/compare/d5067bbbfb46906c65e476ef3d55dd3b2c505a09..4e8f16f16bf7ec92d9509976e843099091e4b5b7
>
> *— MOTION ENDS —*
>
> This ballot proposes a Final Maintenance Guideline.
>
> The procedure for approval of this ballot is as follows:
>
> Discussion (7+ days)
> Start Time: 26-June 2020 19:00 UTC
> End Time: after 4-July 2020 00:00 UTC
>
> Vote for approval (7 days)
> Start Time: 6-July 2020 14:20 UTC
> End Time: 13-July 2020 20:00 UTC
>
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