[Servercert-wg] [Voting Begins] Ballot SC-75 v3 - Pre-sign linting

[Matsuo Yoshihiko]

JPRS votes YES to Ballot SC-75

Yoshihiko Matsuo


On Wed, 19 Jun 2024 10:13:20 +0000
"Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA) via Servercert-wg" <servercert-wg at cabforum.org> wrote:

> Voting begins for this ballot.
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>   SC-75 v3 Pre-sign linting
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>     Summary
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> There have been numerous compliance incidents publicly disclosed by CAs in which they failed to comply with the technical requirements described in standards associated with the issuance and management of publicly-trusted TLS Certificates. However, the industry has developed open-source tools, linters, that are free to use and can help CAs avoid certificate misissuance. Using such linters before issuing a precertificate from a Publicly-Trusted CA (pre-issuance linting) can prevent the mis-issuance in a wide variety of cases.
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> The following motion has been proposed by Dimitris Zacharopoulos of HARICA and endorsed by Corey Bonnell of Digicert and Ben Wilson of Mozilla.
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> You can view the GitHub pull request representing this ballot here <https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/pull/518>.
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>     Motion Begins
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> MODIFY the "Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted TLS Server Certificates" based on Version 2.0.5 as specified in the following redline:
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>   * https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/20af1b271f2b689344ae353d3e78dc6b772199db...d809c41bc063109e15d46bfe1b5ad6403d823381
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>     Motion Ends
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> This ballot proposes a Final Maintenance Guideline. The procedure for approval of this ballot is as follows:
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>         Discussion (at least 7 days)
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>   * Start time: 2024-06-12 06:30:00 UTC
>   * End time: on or after 2024-06-19 06:30:00 UTC
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>         Vote for approval (7 days)
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>   * Start time: 2024-06-19 10:00:00 UTC
>   * End time: 2024-06-26 10:00:00 UTC
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