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Ballot 135 – ETSI Auditor Qualifications (passed)

Ballot 135 – ETSI Auditor Qualifications

Voting on Ballot 135 – ETSI Auditor Qualifications closed on 16 October 2014.

The Chair received “yes” votes from ANF, Buypass, Certinomis, Chunghwa Telecom, Comodo, GlobalSign, GoDaddy, Izenpe, Kamu Sertifikasyon Merkezi, Logius PKIoverheid, Microsoft, Opentrust, Opera, SSC, Symantec, Trend Micro, Trustis, and TURKTRUST.

Actalis, DigiCert, Disig, Entrust, Google, Mozilla, StartCom, TWCA, and WoSign abstained.

Therefore, Ballot 135 passed.

Iñigo Barreira of Izenpe made the following motion and Moudrick Dadashov of SSC, Rob Horne of Trustis, and Mads Henriksveen of Buypass have endorsed it:

Reasons for proposed ballot

The CABF has asked ETSI for a procedure to identify qualified, ETSI-accredited auditors in order to ensure that audits are properly managed.

The proponents of this ballot believe that the proposed modification to this section makes it more accurate because it refers to a single, reliable source (Annex E of ETSI TS 102 042).

(While ETSI will include on its web site the accredited audit bodies, the definitive information on ETSI auditor accreditation can be obtained from the relevant national accreditation body, which should be contacted for formal confirmation. Accreditation information is generally available on the web site of the national accreditation body, or often it can also be checked on the auditing body’s web site, if they have been properly accredited.)

-MOTION BEGINS Bullet 4 of section 17.6 of the Baseline Requirements document (Auditors qualifications) would be amended as follows:

  1. (For audits conducted in accordance with any one of the ETSI standards) accredited in accordance with Annex E of ETSI TS 102 042 119 403, or accredited to conduct such audits under an equivalent national scheme, or accredited by a national accreditation body in line with ISO 27006 to carry out ISO 27001 audits;

The resulting provision would read:

“4. (For audits conducted in accordance with any one of the ETSI standards) accredited in accordance with Annex E of ETSI TS 102;”

-MOTION ENDS The review period for this ballot shall commence at 2200 UTC on Thursday, 2 October 2014, and will close at 2200 UTC on Thursday, 9 October 2014. Unless the motion is withdrawn during the review period, the voting period will start immediately thereafter and will close at 2200 UTC on Thursday, 16 October 2014. Votes must be cast by posting an on-list reply to this thread.

A vote in favor of the motion must indicate a clear ‘yes’ in the response. 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. Voting members are listed here:

In order for the motion to be adopted, two thirds or more of the votes cast by members in the CA category and greater than 50% of the votes cast by members in the browser category must be in favor. Quorum is currently nine (9) members– at least nine members must participate in the ballot, either by voting in favor, voting against, or abstaining.

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