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

[Ben Wilson]

Mozilla votes "Yes" to Ballot SC-68.

On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 2:00 AM Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA) via
Servercert-wg <servercert-wg at cabforum.org> wrote:

> 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:
>
>
> *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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