[Servercert-wg] Voting Begins for Ballot SC-68: Allow VATEL and VATXI for organizationIdentifier

Tue Jan 23 09:00:08 UTC 2024

This email initiates the voting period for ballot SC-68. Please vote.

      Purpose of the Ballot

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 EN 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. This can easily 
be verified in the VIES VAT number validation website 
<https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/#/vat-validation> where 
Greece is listed as"EL".

There is also Council Directive 2020/1756 
<https://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2020/1756/oj> amending Directive 
2006/112/EC that requires the prefix "XI" for the identification of 
taxable persons in Northern Ireland.

This pull request <https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/pull/473> 
proposes updates to the EV Guidelines to allow those additional 
prefixes. It also fixes some formatting issues.

The following motion has been proposed by Dimitris Zacharopoulos of 
HARICA and endorsed by Ben Wilson of Mozilla and Corey Bonnell of Digicert.

      MOTION BEGINS

This ballot modifies the “Guidelines for the Issuance and Management of 
Extended Validation Certificates” (“EV Guidelines”), based on Version 1.8.0.

MODIFY the EV Guidelines as specified in the following Redline:

  * https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/da89d0e9700c6dd89a8263526addc39f472bf54c.

      MOTION ENDS

The procedure for this ballot is as follows:

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	*Start time (8:00 UTC)* 	*End time (8:00 UTC)*
Discussion (at least 7 days) 	2024-01-16 	2024-01-23
Expected Vote for approval (7 days) 	2024-01-23
	2024-01-30
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