Voting Results

Certificate Issuers

24 votes total, with no abstentions:

• 24 Issuers voting YES: Actalis, Amazon, Buypass, Chunghwa Telecom, D-Trust, Digicert, Disig, eMudhra, Entrust, Fastly, GDCA, Globalsign, GoDaddy, HARICA, iTrusChina, Izenpe, JPRS, LE, OISTE, SECOM, Sectigo, SSL.com, Swisssign and Telia
• 0 Issuers voting NO
• 0 Issuers ABSTAIN

Certificate Consumers

4 votes total, with no abstentions:

• 4 Consumers voting YES: Google, Mozilla, Apple and Opera
• 0 Consumers voting NO
• 0 Consumers ABSTAIN

Bylaws Requirements

1. Bylaw 2.3(6) requires:

• In order for a ballot to be adopted by the Forum, two‐thirds (2/3) or more of the votes cast by the Voting Members in the Certificate Issuer category must be in favour of the ballot. This requirement was MET.
• at least fifty percent (50%) plus one (1) of the votes cast by the Voting Members in the Certificate Consumer category must be in favour of the ballot. This requirement was MET.
• At least one (1) Voting Member in each category must vote in favour of a ballot for the ballot to be adopted. This requirement was MET.

2. Bylaw 2.3(7) requires:

• A ballot result will be considered valid only when more than half of the number of currently active Voting Members has participated. The number of currently active Voting Members is the average number of Voting Member organizations that have participated in the previous three (3) Forum Meetings and Forum Teleconferences.
• Half of the currently active members at the start of voting was 13, so the quorum was 14 for this ballot. This requirement was MET.

Ballot Contents

Purpose of Ballot SC-66

This ballot proposes updates to the Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted Certificates related to the issues and typos that have happened due to the different updates of the document.

Notes:

• The majority of these issues have been documented in GitHub and have therefore labeled as cleanup and have been the basis for this update.
• Some have been provided by emails to the CABF lists and included in this reviewed version because were typos.

The following motion has been proposed by Iñigo Barreira of Sectigo. And, endorsed by Aaron Gable of Let´s Encrypt and Clint Wilson of Apple.

Motion begins

This ballot modifies the “Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted Certificates” (“Baseline Requirements”), based on Version 2.0.1.

MODIFY the Baseline Requirements as specified in the following Redline:

Comparing 90a98dc7c1131eaab01af411968aa7330d315b9b…d8447957753ed973cb036d0afe16723243c89998 · cabforum/servercert (github.com)

Motion ends

This ballot proposes a Final Maintenance Guideline. The procedure for approval of this ballot is as follows:

Discussion (7 days)

• Start time: 9-11-2023 18:30:00 UTC
• End time: 16-11-2023 18:30:00 UTC

Vote for approval (7 days)

• Start time: 16-11-2023 18:30:00 UTC
• End time: 23-11-2023 18:30:00 UTC