[Servercert-wg] Discussion Period Begins: Ballot SC-062: Certificate Profiles Update

[Ryan Dickson]

Purpose of Ballot

Over the past three years, members of the Server Certificate Working Group
Validation Subcommittee have collaborated on an update to the Baseline
Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted
Certificates focused on improving the clarity of Section 7 (“Certificate,
CRL, and OCSP Profiles”).

The update:

   1.

   better aligns certificate content expectations across certificate
   issuers and consumers,
   2.

   reduces the opportunity for confusion resulting from the absence of a
   more precise certificate profile specification, and
   3.

   promotes more consistent and reliable implementations across the
   ecosystem.


While most of the proposed updates focus on Section 7, changes were not
limited to only this section.

Technical discussion related to the proposed changes, along with high-level
change summaries have been documented in:

   -

   open GitHub pull requests (originally here
   <https://github.com/sleevi/cabforum-docs/pull/36>, and more recently here
   <https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/pull/373>),
   -

   several closed GitHub pull requests made against the “profiles
   <https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/tree/profiles>” branch of the
   servercert GitHub repository, and
   -

   Validation Subcommittee meeting minutes (to include sessions held at
   Face-to-Face meetings).


Due to a small number of changes proposed in the ballot that is otherwise
focused on clarifying existing requirements, an “all-encompassing”
effective date makes these changes normative beginning 2023-09-15.

The following motion has been proposed by Ryan Dickson of Google and
endorsed by Clint Wilson of Apple and Dimitris 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 1.8.6.

MODIFY the Baseline Requirements as specified in the following Redline:
https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/2c63814fa7f9f7c477c74a6bfbeb57e0fcc5dd5b..0689ba59dbad9f5d2a5269051e5e0d0d1a25f3f6


— Motion Ends —

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

Discussion (7+ days)

   -

   Start time: 2023-31-01 15:00:00 UTC
   -

   End time: Not before 2023-02-07 15:00:00 UTC


Vote for approval (7 days)

   -

   Start time: TBD
   -

   End time: TBD
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.cabforum.org/pipermail/servercert-wg/attachments/20230131/7633af30/attachment.html>