[Servercert-wg] Seeking endorsers: Ballot SC-XX: Measure all hours and days to the second

[Aaron Gable]

Hi all,

Thanks for the great discussion in the ServerCert WG call this morning!

I have updated this draft ballot to attempt to use Clint's language around
interpreting time periods to be their minimum value. Please take a look!

https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/pull/470/files

Thanks again,
Aaron

On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 9:49 AM Aaron Gable <aaron at letsencrypt.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> As a result of this bugzilla incident
> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1865080>, and inspired by Ballot
> SC-52 <https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/pull/327> which never came
> to a vote, I would like to re-propose that the Baseline Requirements
> clarify that all "hour" and "day" time periods are measured with 1-second
> precision, and do not refer to calendar days. They currently do this in two
> separate places (three, if you count the definition of Short-Lived
> Certificates). I believe it will benefit all readers to instead state this
> convention once at the beginning of the document, so that it is clear that
> it applies uniformly to all time periods measured in those units.
>
> The pull request can be viewed and commented on here:
> https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/pull/470
> The precise diff that will become the ballot redline if no changes are
> requested can be viewed here:
> https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/90a98dc7c1131eaab01af411968aa7330d315b9b...c3e928e73caed8c8489ab5406127aad661b8a63e
>
> I am seeking endorsers for this ballot.
>
> Thank you!
> Aaron
>
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