[Servercert-wg] Voting period begins: SC-58: require distributionPoint in sharded CRLs

Aaron Gable aaron at letsencrypt.org
Mon Oct 31 16:15:16 UTC 2022


Purpose of Ballot

Recently, several conversations around the necessity of the
distributionPoint field (and its containing Issuing Distribution Point
extension) in sharded CRLs have come to the conclusion that, although the
distributionPoint field serves an important purpose in defending against
substitution attacks, RFC 5280's language does not actually require its
presence.

This ballot augments the Baseline Requirements' CRL Profile to ensure that
all sharded CRLs contain the distributionPoint field.


The following motion has been proposed by Aaron Gable of ISRG / Let's
Encrypt, and endorsed by Clint Wilson of Apple, Corey Bonnell of DigiCert,
and Dmitris Zacharopoulos of HARICA.
Motion Begins

This ballot modifies the “Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and
Management of Publicly-Trusted Certificates” (“Baseline Requirements”),
based on Version 1.8.4.


MODIFY the Baseline Requirements as specified in the following Redline:

https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/bbca71465ed8a8a76383086039f52c750009286a..348756d64e863c19bcab404671abeeec985d6041
Motion Ends

This ballot proposes a Final Maintenance Guideline. The procedure for
approval of this ballot is as follows:


Discussion (Completed)

Start time: 2022-10-22 00:00:00 UTC

End time: Not before 2022-10-29 00:00:00 UTC


Vote for approval (7 days)

Start time: 2022-10-31 16:00:00 UTC

End time: 2022-11-07 16:00:00 UTC
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