Ballot SC-72: Delete except to policyQualifiers in EVGs; align with BRs by making them NOT RECOMMENDED
Voting Results
Certificate Issuers
15 votes total, with no abstentions:
- 15 Issuers voting YES: Buypass, Certum (Asseco), DigiCert, eMudhra, Entrust, GlobalSign, GoDaddy, HARICA, Izenpe, OISTE, SECOM, Sectigo, SwissSign, TWCA, Telia Company
- 0 Issuers voting NO
- 0 Issuers ABSTAIN
Certificate Consumers
2 votes total, with no abstentions:
- 2 Consumers voting YES: Apple, Google
- 0 Consumers voting NO
- 0 Consumers ABSTAIN
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Summary of Review
Ballot for Review: Ballot SC-72: Delete except to policyQualifiers in EVGs; align with BRs by making them NOT RECOMMENDED
Start of Review Period: 3 April 2024 at 10:00 UTC
End of Review Period: 3 May 2024 at 10:00 UTC
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Ballot Contents
Purpose of the Ballot
This ballot updates the TLS Extended Validation Guidelines (EVGs) by removing the exceptions to policyQualifiers in section 9.7, to align them with the Baseline Requirements (BRs).
The following motion has been proposed by Paul van Brouwershaven (Entrust) and endorsed by Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA) and Iñigo Barreira (Sectigo).
Motion begins
This ballot modifies the “Guidelines for the Issuance and Management of Extended Validation Certificates” (“EV Guidelines”) as follows, based on version 1.8.1:
MODIFY the Extended Validation Guidelines as specified in the following redline: https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/8e7fc7d5cac0cc27c44fe2aa88cf45f5606f4b94...7b9bb1dbfd41b1d0459b8a985ed629ad841ce122
Motion ends
The procedure for this ballot is as follows:
| Start time (10:00 UTC) | End time (10:00 UTC) | |
|---|---|---|
| Discussion (at least 7 days) | 2024-03-15 | 2024-03-22 |
| Start time (12:00 UTC) | End time (12:00 UTC) | |
|---|---|---|
| Vote for approval (7 days) | 2024-03-25 | 2024-04-01 |