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

[Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA)]

Reminder that voting for ballot SC-68 ends tomorrow, 2024-01-30 8:00 UTC.

Thank you,
Dimitris.

On 23/1/2024 11:00 π.μ., Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA) wrote:
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> This email initiates the voting period for ballot SC-68. Please vote.
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>       Purpose of the Ballot
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> 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.
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> 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".
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> The following motion has been proposed by Dimitris Zacharopoulos of 
> HARICA and endorsed by Ben Wilson of Mozilla and Corey Bonnell of 
> Digicert.
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>       MOTION BEGINS
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> This ballot modifies the “Guidelines for the Issuance and Management 
> of Extended Validation Certificates” (“EV Guidelines”), based on 
> Version 1.8.0.
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> MODIFY the EV Guidelines as specified in the following Redline:
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>   * https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/da89d0e9700c6dd89a8263526addc39f472bf54c.
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>       MOTION ENDS
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> 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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