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

[Clint Wilson]

Apple votes YES on Ballot SC-068.

> On Jan 23, 2024, at 1:00 AM, Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA) via Servercert-wg <servercert-wg at cabforum.org> 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.
> 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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