Ballot 80 – Response for Non-Issued Certificates

Ballot 80 – Response for Non-Issued Certificates (Passed)

Motion

Yngve Pettersen made the following motion and Ben Wilson and Carsten Dahlenkamp endorsed it:

… Motion begins….

Effective 1 Feb 2013

Erratum begins

Insert a new section at the end of section 13.2 of the Baseline Requirements with the following heading and text:

“13.2.6 Response for non-issued certificates

If the OCSP responder receives a request for status of a certificate that has not been issued, then the responder SHOULD NOT respond with a “good” status. The CA SHOULD monitor the responder for such requests as part of its security response procedures.

Effective 1 August 2013, OCSP responders MUST NOT respond with a “good” status for such certificates.”

Erratum ends

The ballot review period comes into effect at 21:00 UTC on 19 July 2012 and will close at 21:00 UTC on 26 July 2012. Unless the motion is withdrawn during the review period, the voting period will start immediately thereafter and will close at 21:00 UTC on 2 August 2012. Votes must be cast by posting an on-list reply to this thread.

… Motions ends …

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A vote against must indicate a clear ‘no’ in the response. A vote to abstain must indicate a clear ‘abstain’ in the response. Unclear responses will not be counted. The latest vote received from any representative of a voting member before the close of the voting period will be counted.