Ballot 200 – Amendment of Bylaws to add Code of Conduct
Ballot 200
Results on Ballot 200 – Amendment of Bylaws to add Code of Conduct
The voting period for Ballot 200 has ended, and the ballot has passed. Here are the results.
Voting by CAs – 24 votes total, including abstentions
24 Yes votes: Amazon, ANF Autoridad de Certificacion, Buypass, CFCA, Chunghwa Telecom, Cisco, CNNIC, DigiCert, Disig, Entrust, GDCA, GlobalSign, GoDaddy, HARICA, Izenpe, Logius PKIoverheid, OATI, QuoVadis, SHECA, SSC, SwissSign, Symantec, Trustwave, TurkTrust
0 No vote:
0 Abstain:
100% of voting CAs voted in favor
Voting by browsers – 3 votes total, including abstentions
3 Yes votes: Apple, Microsoft, Mozilla
0 No votes:
0 Abstain:
100% of voting browsers voted in favor
Under Bylaw 2.2(g), a ballot result will be considered valid only when more than half of the number of currently active Members has participated. Votes to abstain are counted in determining a quorum. Half of currently active Members as of the start of voting is 10, so quorum was 11 votes. 27 votes (including abstentions) were cast – quorum was met.
Bylaw 2.2(f) requires a yes vote by two-thirds of CA votes and 50%-plus-one browser votes for approval. Votes to abstain are not counted for this purpose. This requirement was met for both CAs and browsers.
At least one CA Member and one browser Member must vote in favor of a ballot for the ballot to be adopted. This requirement was met
Ballot 200 passes.
Because this Ballot was for a change to the Forum’s Bylaws, and not a change to a Final Guideline or Final Maintenance Guideline, there will be no Review Period notice sent under our IPR Policy. The Bylaws change takes effect immediately.
Purpose of Ballot: To amend the CAB Forum Bylaws to add a Code of Conduct.
The following motion has been proposed by Virginia Fournier of Apple and endorsed by Gervase Markham of Mozilla and Tarah Wheeler of Symantec.
-MOTION BEGINS
- A new Section 6.4 will be added to the Bylaws of the CAB Forum, and will read in its entirety as follows:
“Section 6.4
All Members shall abide by the CAB Forum Code of Conduct, which is attached to these Bylaws as Exhibit C.”
- A new Exhibit C will be added to the Bylaws, and will read in its entirety as follows:
“Exhibit C
CAB Forum Code of Conduct (the “Code”)
The CAB Forum (the “Forum”) is comprised of a global group of professionals with differences in language, skills, expertise, experience, and backgrounds. To maintain a professional and productive environment, it is necessary for Members of the Forum to follow the letter and spirit of this Code. This Code applies to all official Forum activities, such as meetings, teleconferences, mailing lists, conferences, and other Forum functions. The Forum is committed to maintaining a professional and respectful environment.
All Member representatives are expected to behave in a collegial and professional manner in accordance with this Code. Members will familiarize their representatives with this Code and require them to comply with the letter and spirit of this Code.
I. Conduct. The Forum is committed to providing a friendly, safe, and welcoming environment for all, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, personal appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, age, religion, nationality, or other similar characteristic. The Forum recognizes and appreciates that its participants have diverse languages, backgrounds, experience, and expertise, and expects that all participants will be treated with respect by all other participants.
(a) In connection with official Forum activities, all Forum participants shall:
- Be polite, kind, and courteous to other participants, refraining from insulting remarks on the perceived intelligence or ability of others.
- Treat fellow Forum participants with respect, professionalism, courtesy, and reasonableness.
- Respect that people have differences of opinion, and that there is seldom unanimous agreement on a single “correct” answer. Be willing to compromise and agree to disagree.
(b) In connection with official Forum activities, all Forum participants shall refrain from conduct such as:
- Threatening violence towards anyone.
- Discriminating against anyone on the basis of personal characteristics or group membership.
- Harassing or bullying anyone verbally, physically, or sexually.
- Launching barbs at others. [Note: a “barb” is an obviously or openly unpleasant or carping remark.]
- Touching another person in a physically inappropriate way.
- Deliberately intimidating or stalking another person (in-person, online, or by other means).
- Inappropriately disrupting or impeding official Forum events, including meetings, talks, and presentations. For purposes of this Code, “inappropriate disruption” would include aggressive, violent, and abusive conduct that prevents an official Forum event from occurring or proceeding.
- Spamming, trolling, flaming, baiting, and other similar behavior inappropriately directed towards an individual.
- Advocating for, or encouraging, any of the above behavior.
(c) All Forum participants should promote the rules of this Code and take action to bring discussions back into compliance with the Code whenever violations are observed.
(d) Forum participants should stick to ideological, conceptual discussions and avoid engaging in offensive or sensitive personal discussions, particularly if they’re off-topic; such personal discussions can lead to unnecessary arguments, hurt feelings, and damaged trust.
- Moderation. These are the policies for upholding the Code.
(a) Resist the urge to be defensive. Remember that it’s your responsibility to clearly communicate your message to your fellow participants. Everyone wants to get along and we are all in the Forum first and foremost because we want to talk about standards and everything that involves. Other participants will be eager to assume good intent and forgive as long as you have earned their trust.
(b) Participants should inform the Chair, Vice Chair, and/or a Working Group Chair immediately if they feel they have been, or are being, harassed or made uncomfortable by a Forum member. Intimidation, personal attacks, and retaliation of any kind will not be tolerated.
(c) Any Forum participant may report, in good faith, a perceived violation of the Code to the Forum Chair or Vice Chair, or to a Working Group Chair (each, a “Code Liaison”). One or more Code Liaison(s) will work with the reported Forum participant to determine whether a violation of the Code has occurred and, if so, how to resolve it. Resolution may also include appropriate executives from the Forum participant’s Member company, as appropriate. If the reported Forum participant, Member executives, and the Code Liaison(s) are unable to resolve the issue, any of the foregoing may request the assistance of a reasonably acceptable independent third party (such as an Interested Party or WebTrust) to assist with the resolution.
(d) Members agree to take appropriate action in the event any of their Member representatives violate the Code. Such action could include warning, reprimanding, suspending, removing or replacing the Member representative who has violated the Code, depending on the severity of the violation. Depending on the number and severity of violations, the Forum may impose consequences such as excluding a Member representative from certain meetings, removing a Member representative from a mailing list, and suspending a Member representative from certain Forum activities.
Adapted from the WHATWG Code of Conduct https://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct, the W3C Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct https://www.w3c.org/Consortium/cepc/, and the Citizen Code of Conduct http://citizencodeofconduct.org/.”
-END OF MOTION The procedure for approval of this ballot is as follows (exact start and end times may be adjusted to comply with applicable sections of the Bylaws and IPR Agreement):
BALLOT 200
Status: Amendment to Bylaws
Start time (22:00 UTC)
End time (22:00 UTC)
Discussion (7 days)
Starts: May 16, 2017
Ends: May 23, 2017
Vote for approval (7 days)
Starts: May 23, 2017
Ends: May 30, 2017
No Review Period is required.
Votes must be cast by posting an on-list reply to this thread on the Public List. 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 shown on CA/Browser Forum wiki. Under Bylaw 2.2(g), at least the required quorum number must participate in the ballot for the ballot to be valid, either by voting in favor, voting against, or abstaining.