Ballot SC-69: Clarify router and firewall logging requirements
Voting Results
Certificate Issuers
26 votes total, with no abstentions:
- 26 Issuers voting YES: Amazon, Buypass, Certum (Asseco), CFCA, Chunghwa Telecom, CommScope, D-TRUST, DigiCert, Disig, Entrust, Fastly, GDCA, GlobalSign, GoDaddy, HARICA, IdenTrust, iTrusChina, JPRS, Kamu SM, Let’s Encrypt / ISRG, OISTE, SECOM, Sectigo, SSL.com, SwissSign, Telia Company
- 0 Issuers voting NO
- 0 Issuers ABSTAIN
Certificate Consumers
2 votes total, with no abstentions:
- 2 Consumers voting YES: Google, Mozilla
- 0 Consumers voting NO
- 0 Consumers ABSTAIN
Bylaws Requirements
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Notice of Review Period
This Review Notice is sent pursuant to Section 4.1 of the CA/Browser Forum’s Intellectual Property Rights Policy (v1.3). This Review Period of 30 days is for one Final Maintenance Guidelines. The complete Draft Maintenance Guideline that is the subject of this Review Notice is attached to this email, both in red-line and changes-accepted draft format, in Word and PDF versions.
Summary of Review
Ballot for Review: Ballot SC-69: Clarify router and firewall logging requirements
Start of Review Period: 13 March 2024 at 18:00 UTC
End of Review Period: 13 April 2024 at 18:00 UTC
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Ballot Contents
Purpose of the Ballot
This ballot aims to clarify what data needs to be logged as part of the “Firewall and router activities” logging requirement in the Baseline Requirements.
This ballot is proposed by Martijn Katerbarg (Sectigo) and endorsed by Daniel Jeffery (Fastly) and Ben Wilson (Mozilla).
Motion begins
This ballot modifies the “Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted TLS Server Certificates" (“TLS Baseline Requirements”), based on Version 2.0.2.
MODIFY the TLS Baseline Requirements as specified in the following Redline: https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/41f01640748fa612386f8b1a3031cd1bff3d4f35...d5bd141e14de098ff00c10de7cf500668cbc6843
Motion ends
This ballot proposes a Final Maintenance Guideline. The procedure for this ballot is as follows:
| Start time (11:00 UTC) | End time (11:00 UTC) | |
|---|---|---|
| Discussion (at least 7 days) | 2024-02-26 | 2024-03-04 |
| Expected Vote for approval (7 days) | 2024-03-04 | 2024-03-11 |