Ballot SC-65v2: Convert EVGs into RFC 3647 format

Voting Results

Certificate Issuers

23 votes total, with no abstentions:

• 23 Issuers voting YES: Actalis, Buypass, Certum (Asseco), CFCA, CommScope, D-TRUST, DigiCert, Entrust, GDCA, GlobalSign, GoDaddy, HARICA, IdenTrust, iTrusChina, Izenpe, JPRS, OISTE, SECOM, Sectigo, SSL.com, SwissSign, TWCA, Telia Company
• 0 Issuers voting NO
• 0 Issuers ABSTAIN

Certificate Consumers

2 votes total, with no abstentions:

• 2 Consumers voting YES: Microsoft, Mozilla
• 0 Consumers voting NO
• 0 Consumers ABSTAIN

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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-65: Convert EVGs into RFC 3647 format

TLS-BRs

EVGs

Start of Review Period: 15 March 2024 at 10:00 UTC

End of Review Period: 15 April 2024 at 10:00 UTC

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Ballot Contents

Purpose of the Ballot

The Extended Validation Certificates guidelines (EVGs) were developed and written in a specific format. Since then, the RFC 3647 has been the basis (and the de-facto standard) for the CA/Browser Forum to develop other documents.

This ballot aims to update the EVGs to follow the RFC 3647 format without changing any content, just moving current sections to those defined in the RFC 3647. There are no normative requirements changes.

This change also affects the Baseline Requirements for TSL certificates (BRs) which needs to point to the new sections of the EVGs. Both documents will be updated according to the latest version published.

This ballot is proposed by Iñigo Barreira (Sectigo) and endorsed by Pedro Fuentes (OISTE) and Ben Wilson (Mozilla).

Motion begins

This ballot modifies the “Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted TLS Certificates" (“TLS Baseline Requirements”), based on Version 2.0.2 and the “Guidelines for the Issuance and Management of Extended Validation Certificates” (EVGs) based on Version 1.8.0.

MODIFY the TLS EVGs and BRs as specified in the following Redline:

https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/90a98dc7c1131eaab01af411968aa7330d315b9b...dedeebfe036fa5a6f0d7ae985ea08317ba60b8cb

Motion ends

This ballot proposes a Final Maintenance Guideline for the TLS BRs and EVGs. The procedure for approval of this ballot is as follows: