Ballot SC077: Update WebTrust Audit name in Section 8.4 and References
Voting Results
Certificate Issuers
22 votes total, with no abstentions:
- 22 Issuers voting YES: Amazon, Buypass, Chunghwa Telecom, CommScope, DigiCert, eMudhra, Entrust, Fastly, GlobalSign, GoDaddy, HARICA, IdenTrust, iTrusChina, Izenpe, JPRS, OISTE, SECOM, Sectigo, SSL.com, TrustAsia, TWCA, VikingCloud
- 0 Issuers voting NO
- 0 Issuers ABSTAIN
Certificate Consumers
3 votes total, with no abstentions:
- 3 Consumers voting YES: Apple, Google, 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-77: Update WebTrust Audit name in Section 8.4 and References
Start of Review Period: 2 September 2024 at 11:30 UTC
End of Review Period: 2 October 2024 at 11:30 UTC
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Ballot Contents
Purpose of the Ballot
System Security Requirements (NCSSRs) from the audit criteria which map to the TLS Baseline Requirements (TBRs). As a result, the requirements in Section 8.4 are out of date for audits which use the updated/separated audit criteria. However, we also need to ensure the combined audit criteria are able to be used until fully deprecated by CPA Canada and/or Root Programs stop accepting them.
This ballot modifies Section 8.4 to allow for a CA to be audited against either: • WebTrust Principles and Criteria for Certification Authorities – SSL Baseline with Network Security; or • WebTrust Principles and Criteria for Certification Authorities – SSL Baseline AND WebTrust Principles and Criteria for Certification Authorities – Network Security
The following motion has been proposed by Clint Wilson (Apple) and endorsed by Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA) and Trevoli Ponds-White (Amazon)
Motion begins
MODIFY the “Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted TLS Server Certificates” (“TLS Baseline Requirements”) based on Version 2.0.5 as specified in the following redline: • https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/20af1b271f2b689344ae353d3e78dc6b772199db…a9d3e3b6e514cf8b4d44ace625a447108c04a91c
Motion ends
This ballot proposes a Final Maintenance Guideline. The procedure for approval of this ballot is as follows:
Discussion (7+ days)
• Start time: 2024-08-06 17:00:00 UTC
• End time: 2024-08-13 17:00:00 UTC
Vote for approval (7 days)
• Start time: 2024-08-13 17:00:00 UTC
• End time: 2024-08-20 17:00:00 UTC