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Ballot SC025: Define New HTTP Domain Validation Methods v2

BALLOT RESULTS

The voting period for Ballot SC25 has ended and the Ballot has Passed. Here are the results:

Voting by Certificate Issuers

24 votes total including abstentions

24 Yes votes: Actalis, Amazon, Buypass, Camerfirma, Certigna (DHIMYOTIS), Certum (Asseco), Chunghwa Telecom, D-TRUST, DigiCert, eMudhra, Entrust Datacard, Firmaprofesional, GDCA, GlobalSign, GoDaddy, HARICA, Izenpe, Let’s Encrypt, OISTE, SSL.com, SwissSign, TrustCor, SecureTrust (former Trustwave), TurkTrust – 0 No votes: – 0 Abstain:

100% of voting Certificate Issuers voted in favor.

Voting by Certificate Consumers

  • 5 votes total including abstentions*

5 Yes votes: Apple, Cisco, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla – 0 No votes: – 0 Abstain:

100% of voting Certificate Consumers voted in favor.

Relevant Bylaw references

Bylaw 2.3(f) requires:

– a “yes” vote by two-thirds of Certificate Issuer votes and 50%-plus-one Certificate Consumer votes for approval. Votes to abstain are not counted for this purpose. This requirement was met for both Certificate Issuers and Certificate Consumers. – at least one Certificate Issuer and one Certificate Consumer Member must vote in favor of a ballot for the ballot to be adopted. This requirement was also met.

Under Bylaw 2.3(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 was 10, so quorum was 11 votes – quorum was met.”

Ballot SC25: Define New HTTP Domain Validation Methods v2

**Purpose of Ballot: **

This ballot sets a sunset date for the current Method 6 and defines two new Domain Validation methods. One is intended to replace Method 6 (Agreed-Upon Change to Website) and the other that describes the ACME HTTP method defined in section 8.3 of RFC 8555.

The following motion has been proposed by Doug Beattie of GlobalSign and endorsed by Jacob Hoffman-Andrews of Lets Encrypt and Bruce Morton of Entrust.

  • -MOTION BEGINS-*

This ballot modifies the “Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted Certificates” as defined in the following redline, based on Version 1.6.7:

https://github.com/dougbeattie/documents/commit/bb90ff37c4bc043636229138d992 3fcff670cdfc#diff-7f6d14a20e7f3beb696b45e1bf8196f2

  • -MOTION ENDS-*

This ballot proposes a Final Maintenance Guideline.

The procedure for approval of this ballot is as follows:

Discussion (7+ days)

Start Time: 17-January 2020 09:00 Eastern

End Time: Not before 24-January 2020 09:00 Eastern

Vote for approval (7 days)

Start Time: 24-January 2020 12:30 Eastern

End Time: 31-January 2020 12:30 Eastern

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This ballot introduces requirements that a CA or RA must follow to rely upon a Mobile Drivers License (mDL) to provide evidence for the authentication of individual identity. It allows the use of mDL that conform to ISO/IEC 18013-5 and which may be verified by the CA or RA in conformance with ISO/IEC 18013-7. The CA or RA shall only accept mDL from an Issuing Authority that is legally authorized by the relevant government or jurisdiction to issue driving licenses. The draft also aligns the subsections of 3.2.4.2 (Validation of individual identity) to correspond more closely with those in 3.2.4.1 (Attribute collection of individual identity). It also includes minor editorial corrections. SMC015v2 was updated to remove an additional reference to the superceded ETSI EN 319 403. This ballot is proposed by Stephen Davidson (DigiCert) and endorsed by Ben Wilson (Mozilla) and Scott Rea (eMudhra).

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