[cabf_validation] Proposed ballot on improving Registration Number language in EVGs

[Clint Wilson]

Hi Corey,

Overall this seems like a good improvement to clarity of the current expectations related to these sections of the EVGs, reflecting the predominant approach to populating the subject:serialNumber field for EV TLS certificates. I do think it would be valuable to standardize on a date format (admittedly somewhat because it feels like a missed opportunity to not do so). What about something like modifying the newly added definition:

**Date of Formation**: The date on which a Legal Entity is first recognized by the jurisdiction in which it was created or formed. The date is formatted according to the complete representation of an extended format calendar date in ISO 8601 (i.e. YYYY-MM-DD; e.g. 0001-01-01).

The parenthetical is probably too much, but you get the idea. And then the three instances of "in any one of the common date formats” could just be deleted.

Cheers,
-Clint

> On Aug 9, 2024, at 8:55 AM, Corey Bonnell via Validation <validation at cabforum.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> Some time ago, I presented [1] a ballot proposal on improving the requirements for the Registration Number value in the EVGs. Here is the current proposal: https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/main...CBonnell:servercert:govt-entity-serial-number.
>  
> On the call where the proposal was presented, there was a desire to explore standardizing date formats for the Date of Formation. Is this something that we would like to see added to the ballot? For the sake of minimizing scope of the ballot, I’m in favor of moving forward without such a requirement, but will certainly be happy to incorporate if there are strong feelings that such a requirement should be added in this ballot.
>  
> Thanks,
> Corey
>  
> [1] https://lists.cabforum.org/pipermail/validation/2024-July/001997.html
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