[Servercert-wg] BALLOT SC26v2: Pandoc-Friendly Markdown Formatting Changes

Christopher Kemmerer chris at ssl.com
Sat Mar 28 09:50:26 MST 2020


SSL.com votes YES on Ballot SC26v2.

On 3/16/2020 8:36 AM, Jos Purvis (jopurvis) via Servercert-wg wrote:
>
> This revives and formally submits Ballot SC26, with discussion period 
> to start on Monday, 16 March at 1400 UTC, completing discussion 
> Monday, 30 March at 1400 UTC, with voting to commence afterwards 
> (dates forthcoming based on discussion). HUGE thanks to the members of 
> the Infrastructure Subcommittee, especially Ryan Sleevi, for their 
> patience and help in preparing this ballot!
>
> **
>
> *BALLOT SC26v2: Pandoc-Friendly Markdown Formatting Changes*
>
> The following ballot is proposed by Jos Purvis of Cisco Systems and 
> has been endorsed byRyan Sleevi (Google) and Dimitris Zacharopoulos 
> (HARICA).
>
> *Purpose:*This ballot modifies the formatting of the Baseline 
> Requirements in order to make the presentation of content consistent 
> and aligned with “vanilla” Markdown. This will permit the use of 
> pandoc as a format-translation tool to automatically produce a PDF, 
> DOCX, and HTML version of the Baseline Requirements document with each 
> update and allow the Forum to use the Markdown-formatted version as 
> the canonical version of the Baseline Requirements. This ballot does 
> NOT declare any version canonical: it merely paves the way to the 
> possibility of doing so in the future by making the document 
> formatting cleaner. In addition, the ballot is not intended to change 
> the meaning of the Baseline Requirements—much effort has been spent in 
> ensuring the meaning and wording of the Requirements has not changed 
> in reformatting the presentation elements.
>
> *Changes:*The changes involved in the ballot are small formatting 
> changes but large in number. As a result, rather than listing the 
> changes individually, members are requested to review the redline of 
> the ballot to see the differences. The pull request containing the set 
> of changes to be implemented can be seen here:
>
> https://github.com/cabforum/documents/pull/165
>
> More specifically, the set of changes to the Baseline Requirements 
> document being proposed in this ballot is shown in this comparison:
>
> https://github.com/cabforum/documents/compare/4f3f38d..8b70d19
>
> In addition to the above changes, some template files are being added 
> to Github that will assist in formatting but not change any BR 
> content. A copy of the resulting formatting changes in each document 
> format can be seen in the attached documents (ref. BR-26.pdf, 
> BR-26.html, BR-26.docx). These changed versions can be compared to the 
> current versions of the document found 
> athttps://github.com/cabforum/documents.
>
> *Ballot Conflicts:*
>
>   * *Ballot SC29*does not conflict with this ballot, as SC29 only
>     modifies the NCSSRs and not the Baseline Requirements.
>   * *Ballot SC27:*
>       o If Ballot SC27 is adopted, the modifications to the Baseline
>         Requirements shall be as shown in the above comparison
>         (https://github.com/cabforum/documents/compare/4f3f38d..8b70d19).
>       o If Ballot SC27 fails to be adopted following the IP review
>         period, the modifications shall be as above,/except as
>         follows/: Section 3.2.2.4 shall be unmodified from its current
>         form in v1.6.8, and Appendix C, which will not have been
>         adopted, shall not be modified or added as part of this ballot.
>
> -- 
> Jos Purvis (jopurvis at cisco.com <mailto:jopurvis at cisco.com>)
> .:|:.:|:. cisco systems  | Cryptographic Services
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>
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Chris Kemmerer
Manager of Operations
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