CAB Forum Certification Authorities, Web Browsers, and Interested Parties Working to Secure the Web

Ballot 4 – Browser Voting Rules (Passed Unanimously) Motion The following motion was made by Johnathan Nightingale and seconded by Bruce Morton and Jay Schiavo ‘The CABForum voting rules will be amended as follows: The sentence: “In order for the motion to carry, two-thirds or more of the votes cast by the permanent members in the CA category must be ... Read More »

Ballot 3 – Drop UTF-8 English encoding requirement from business category (Passed – 91% of CAs, 100% Browsers) The following motion was made by Tony Berman Strike “in UTF-8 English” from Section 6(a)(3) of the EV Guidelines Read More »

Ballot 2 – Security Committee (Failed Quorum) Motion “The CABForum adopts the procedures for a security committee as described in ‘CABForum security committee, draft 2, 2007-06-14’ (as distributed by Gervase Markham on 19 June 2007), for a trial period not to exceed six months.  The procedures and the duration of the trial period may be revised by a similar ballot ... Read More »

On June 7, 2007, the draft CA/Browser Forum’s Guidelines for the Issuance and Management of Extended Validation Certificates Version 1.0 passed unanimously pursuant to Ballot 1. Read More »