[Servercert-wg] Voting period begins: Ballot SC60: Membership of ZT Browser

[Tim Hollebeek]

Thanks for summarizing the results, but this is not a responsibility of ballot proposers.

Bylaws 2.3 (8) [emphasis mine]:

The Chair will tabulate and announce the results within three (3) business days of the close of the voting period.
-Tim

From: Servercert-wg <servercert-wg-bounces at cabforum.org> On Behalf Of Aaron Gable via Servercert-wg
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Subject: Re: [Servercert-wg] Voting period begins: Ballot SC60: Membership of ZT Browser

The voting period for this ballot has ended.

Certificate Issuers
12 votes total, including 7 abstensions.
- 4 Issuers vote YES: Entrust, HARICA, Izenpe, Telia
- 1 Issuer votes NO: SwissSign
- 7 Issuers ABSTAIN: Actalis, DigiCert, D-Trust, JPRS, OISTE, SECOM Trust Systems, SSL.com

Certificate Consumers
4 votes total, with no abstensions.
- 0 Consumers vote YES
- 4 Consumers vote NO: Apple, Google Chrome, Mozilla, Opera
- 0 Consumers ABSTAIN

Requirements
- A quorum of more than half the average number of attendees of the last three meetings (13): MET
- A "yes" vote by at least 2/3rds of Certificate Issuers: MET
- A "yes" vote by greater than 50% of Certificate Consumers: NOT MET
- A "yes" vote by at least one Issuer and at least one Consumer: NOT MET

Result
The ballot fails.

On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 5:12 PM Aaron Gable via Servercert-wg <servercert-wg at cabforum.org<mailto:servercert-wg at cabforum.org>> wrote:
The discussion (see https://lists.cabforum.org/pipermail/servercert-wg/2023-January/003485.html<https://avanan.url-protection.com/v1/url?o=https%3A//lists.cabforum.org/pipermail/servercert-wg/2023-January/003485.html&g=MzAwMjExNTFhZjc3MDU4ZA==&h=ZGY0MTkyNjQyMGNlNmIyZmM1N2M5MTEzYWE0NzkxMmYxYzc5NTY3N2IwN2M2OTFhZjdiZThkZDY4YjhmZGFhMg==&p=YXAzOmRpZ2ljZXJ0OmE6bzoxZjFiYjhlY2I1MTBkNTI5MGMzYzJmNGJhOWFiOGQyZDp2MTpoOkY=>) period for ballot SC60 has ended. This email serves to begin the voting period.

Purpose of Ballot

Richard Wang has applied for ZT Browser (produced by ZoTrus Technology Limited) to be granted membership in the Server Certificate Working Group as a Certificate Consumer. The SCWG Charter states that "An Applicant shall become a Member... upon the request of any Member, by a Ballot among the Members." This ballot is to determine if ZT Browser shall become a Member.

The following motion has been proposed by Aaron Gable of ISRG / Let's Encrypt, and endorsed by Tobias Josefowitz of Opera and Tim Hollebeek of Digicert.

Motion Begins

Modify the membership of the Server Certificate Working Group to include ZT Browser as a Certificate Consumer with "richard at ztbro.com<mailto:richard at ztbro.com>" as the Authorized Representative.

Motion Ends

Discussion Period

Start time: 2023-01-05 19:00 UTC
End time: Not before 2023-01-19 19:00 UTC

Vote for Approval

Start time: 2023-01-20 23:00 UTC
End time: 2023-01-27 23:00 UTC
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