[Servercert-wg] Allow VATEL for organizationIdentifier values in EV Guidelines

[Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA)]

Dear Members,

The EV Guidelines have strict rules in the organizationIdentifier values 
and require the country code of all currently-allowed Registration 
Schemes (NTR, VAT, PSD) to follow the ISO 3166-1 for the 2-letter 
country prefix.

The organizationIdentifier language mainly came from ETSI ESI 319 412-1 
and then the SCWG made several modifications. However, there is an 
exception for Greece specifically for the VAT Registration Scheme that 
is aligned with Article 215 of Council Directive 2006/112/EC 
<https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2006/112/oj> that allows Greece to 
use the country prefix "EL". In practice, Greece uses the prefix "EL" to 
identify itself next to the VAT number of all Legal Entities 
registered/incorporated/established in Greece, and all other European 
Countries use this prefix to identify Greek VAT numbers. You can easily 
verify this in the VIES VAT number validation website 
<https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/#/vat-validation> where 
Greece is listed as"EL".

Based on the above, I prepared 
https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/main...dzacharo:servercert:updateVAT 
and plan to prepare a ballot to update the EV Guidelines. Mozilla is 
willing to endorse this ballot so I am actually looking for one more 
endorser.

Please let me know if there are any issues or concerns with this proposal.


Best regards,
Dimitris.
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