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2014-12-12 Minutes
December 12, 2014 by Ben WilsonAttendees: Doug (GS), Rick (Symc), Ryan (Google), Atsushi (GS), Atilla + Volkan and Kubra (TurkTrust), Eddy (Startcom), Chris (Trustwave), Rich (Comodo), Davut (E-Turgra), Wayne (GoDaddy), Kirk (Trend), Mads (Buypass), Peter (Disig), Ben, Jeremy (Digicert), Kelvin (MSFT), Moudrick, Tim S. (Trustwave), Robin (Comodo), Candice (OATI), Tim H (Trustwave), Mat (Apple) Minutes of Nov 13th were approved. .Onion proposal Jeremy to post final version of his proposal/ballot. Will allow CAs to issue certs to .
December 12, 2014 by Ben WilsonAttendees: Doug (GS), Rick (Symc), Ryan (Google), Atsushi (GS), Atilla + Volkan and Kubra (TurkTrust), Eddy (Startcom), Chris (Trustwave), Rich (Comodo), Davut (E-Turgra), Wayne (GoDaddy), Kirk (Trend), Mads (Buypass), Peter (Disig), Ben, Jeremy (Digicert), Kelvin (MSFT), Moudrick, Tim S. (Trustwave), Robin (Comodo), Candice (OATI), Tim H (Trustwave), Mat (Apple) Minutes of Nov 13th were approved. .Onion proposal Jeremy to post final version of his proposal/ballot. Will allow CAs to issue certs to .
2014-11-13 Minutes
November 13, 2014 by Ben WilsonAntitrust Statement was read. Roll Call: Rick (Symantec), Bruce (Entrust), Atsushi (Globalsign), Jeremy (Digicert), Tim S (Trustwave), Kirk (Trend Micro), Wayne (GoDaddy), Gerv (Mozilla), Eddy (Startcom), Connie (Swisscom), Jody (Microsoft), Kelvin (Microsoft), Robin (Comodo), Rich (Comodo), and Davut (E-Tuğra) Agenda reviewed. There were no changes to the Agenda. Minutes of 30 October 2014 The meeting minutes (as previously corrected for name misspelling) were approved by consent. Ben to post on website
November 13, 2014 by Ben WilsonAntitrust Statement was read. Roll Call: Rick (Symantec), Bruce (Entrust), Atsushi (Globalsign), Jeremy (Digicert), Tim S (Trustwave), Kirk (Trend Micro), Wayne (GoDaddy), Gerv (Mozilla), Eddy (Startcom), Connie (Swisscom), Jody (Microsoft), Kelvin (Microsoft), Robin (Comodo), Rich (Comodo), and Davut (E-Tuğra) Agenda reviewed. There were no changes to the Agenda. Minutes of 30 October 2014 The meeting minutes (as previously corrected for name misspelling) were approved by consent. Ben to post on website
2014-10-30 Minutes
October 30, 2014 by Ben WilsonAntitrust Statement was read. Roll Call: Dean (Symantec), Rick (Symantec), Bruce (Entrust), Ben (Digicert), Atsushi (Globalsign), Atilla (TurkTrust), Jeremy (Digicert), Tim S (Trustwave), Tim H (Trustwave), Matt (Apple), Doug (Globalsign), Kirk (Trend Micro), Wayne (GoDaddy), Joe (Wells Fargo), Gerv (Mozilla), Erwann (OpenTrust), Eddy (Startcom), Patrick (Swisscom), Aaron (Microsoft), Kelvin (Microsoft) Agenda reviewed. Minutes of 16 October 2014 and Beijing F2F meeting were approved. Ben to post on website Ballot Review.
October 30, 2014 by Ben WilsonAntitrust Statement was read. Roll Call: Dean (Symantec), Rick (Symantec), Bruce (Entrust), Ben (Digicert), Atsushi (Globalsign), Atilla (TurkTrust), Jeremy (Digicert), Tim S (Trustwave), Tim H (Trustwave), Matt (Apple), Doug (Globalsign), Kirk (Trend Micro), Wayne (GoDaddy), Joe (Wells Fargo), Gerv (Mozilla), Erwann (OpenTrust), Eddy (Startcom), Patrick (Swisscom), Aaron (Microsoft), Kelvin (Microsoft) Agenda reviewed. Minutes of 16 October 2014 and Beijing F2F meeting were approved. Ben to post on website Ballot Review.
Ballot 139 – Vice Chair Election
October 24, 2014 by Ben WilsonBallot 139 – Vice Chair Election The voting period to elect a new Vice Chair of the CA / Browser Forum is now open. Voting will close at 2200 UTC on Friday, 24 October 2014. Candidates for Vice Chair are: Atilla Biler – Turktrust Kirk Hall – Trend Micro Robin Alden – Comodo Below are their candidate statements previously sent to the Forum. Voting Instructions Please send your vote to the Election Committee – Don Sheehy at and cc: Arno Fiedler at .
October 24, 2014 by Ben WilsonBallot 139 – Vice Chair Election The voting period to elect a new Vice Chair of the CA / Browser Forum is now open. Voting will close at 2200 UTC on Friday, 24 October 2014. Candidates for Vice Chair are: Atilla Biler – Turktrust Kirk Hall – Trend Micro Robin Alden – Comodo Below are their candidate statements previously sent to the Forum. Voting Instructions Please send your vote to the Election Committee – Don Sheehy at and cc: Arno Fiedler at .
Ballot 138 – Security Information Sharing Working Group
October 16, 2014 by Ben WilsonBallot 138 – Security Information Sharing Working Group Voting on Ballot 138 – Information Sharing Working Group closed on 16 October 2014. The Chair received “yes” votes from Actalis, ANF, Buypass, Certinomis, Chunghwa Telecom, Comodo, DigiCert, Disig, Entrust, GlobalSign, GoDaddy, Izenpe, Kamu Sertifikasyon Merkezi, Logius PKIoverheid, Microsoft, Mozilla, Opentrust, Opera, SECOM, SSC, StartCom, Symantec, Trend Micro, TURKTRUST, TWCA, and WoSign. Google abstained. Therefore, Ballot 138 passed. Kirk Hall of Trend Micro made the following motion and Ben Wilson of Digicert and Dean Coclin of Symantec have endorsed it:
October 16, 2014 by Ben WilsonBallot 138 – Security Information Sharing Working Group Voting on Ballot 138 – Information Sharing Working Group closed on 16 October 2014. The Chair received “yes” votes from Actalis, ANF, Buypass, Certinomis, Chunghwa Telecom, Comodo, DigiCert, Disig, Entrust, GlobalSign, GoDaddy, Izenpe, Kamu Sertifikasyon Merkezi, Logius PKIoverheid, Microsoft, Mozilla, Opentrust, Opera, SECOM, SSC, StartCom, Symantec, Trend Micro, TURKTRUST, TWCA, and WoSign. Google abstained. Therefore, Ballot 138 passed. Kirk Hall of Trend Micro made the following motion and Ben Wilson of Digicert and Dean Coclin of Symantec have endorsed it:
Ballot 137 – Voting Process Bylaw Amendment (Passed)
October 16, 2014 by Ben WilsonBallot 137 – Voting Process Bylaw Amendment Voting on Ballot 137 – Voting Process Bylaw Amendment closed on 16 October 2014. The Chair received “yes” votes from Certinomis, Chunghwa Telecom, Comodo, DigiCert, Disig, Entrust, GlobalSign, GoDaddy, Kamu Sertifikasyon Merkezi, Microsoft, Mozilla, Opentrust, Opera, SECOM, SSC, SttartCom, Symantec, Trend Micro, TURKTRUST, TWCA, and WoSign. Actalis, ANF, Buypass, Google, Izenpe, and Logius PKIoverheid abstained. Therefore, Ballot 137 passed. Ben Wilson proposed the following ballot and Moudrick Dadashov of SSC and Dean Coclin of Symantec have endorsed it.
October 16, 2014 by Ben WilsonBallot 137 – Voting Process Bylaw Amendment Voting on Ballot 137 – Voting Process Bylaw Amendment closed on 16 October 2014. The Chair received “yes” votes from Certinomis, Chunghwa Telecom, Comodo, DigiCert, Disig, Entrust, GlobalSign, GoDaddy, Kamu Sertifikasyon Merkezi, Microsoft, Mozilla, Opentrust, Opera, SECOM, SSC, SttartCom, Symantec, Trend Micro, TURKTRUST, TWCA, and WoSign. Actalis, ANF, Buypass, Google, Izenpe, and Logius PKIoverheid abstained. Therefore, Ballot 137 passed. Ben Wilson proposed the following ballot and Moudrick Dadashov of SSC and Dean Coclin of Symantec have endorsed it.
Ballot 135 – ETSI Auditor Qualifications (passed)
October 16, 2014 by Ben WilsonBallot 135 – ETSI Auditor Qualifications Voting on Ballot 135 – ETSI Auditor Qualifications closed on 16 October 2014. The Chair received “yes” votes from ANF, Buypass, Certinomis, Chunghwa Telecom, Comodo, GlobalSign, GoDaddy, Izenpe, Kamu Sertifikasyon Merkezi, Logius PKIoverheid, Microsoft, Opentrust, Opera, SSC, Symantec, Trend Micro, Trustis, and TURKTRUST. Actalis, DigiCert, Disig, Entrust, Google, Mozilla, StartCom, TWCA, and WoSign abstained. Therefore, Ballot 135 passed. Iñigo Barreira of Izenpe made the following motion and Moudrick Dadashov of SSC, Rob Horne of Trustis, and Mads Henriksveen of Buypass have endorsed it:
October 16, 2014 by Ben WilsonBallot 135 – ETSI Auditor Qualifications Voting on Ballot 135 – ETSI Auditor Qualifications closed on 16 October 2014. The Chair received “yes” votes from ANF, Buypass, Certinomis, Chunghwa Telecom, Comodo, GlobalSign, GoDaddy, Izenpe, Kamu Sertifikasyon Merkezi, Logius PKIoverheid, Microsoft, Opentrust, Opera, SSC, Symantec, Trend Micro, Trustis, and TURKTRUST. Actalis, DigiCert, Disig, Entrust, Google, Mozilla, StartCom, TWCA, and WoSign abstained. Therefore, Ballot 135 passed. Iñigo Barreira of Izenpe made the following motion and Moudrick Dadashov of SSC, Rob Horne of Trustis, and Mads Henriksveen of Buypass have endorsed it:
Ballot 134 – Application of RFC 5280 to Pre-certificates
October 16, 2014 by Ben WilsonBallot 134 – Application of RFC 5280 to Pre-certificates Voting on Ballot 134 – Application of RFC 5280 to Pre-certificates closed on 16 October 2014. The Chair received “yes” votes from Actalis, Buypass, Chunghwa Telecom, Comodo, DigiCert, Disig, Entrust, GlobalSign, GoDaddy, Google, Logius PKIoverheid, Mozilla, Opera, Symantec, Trend Micro, TURKTRUST, TWCA, and WoSign. Opentrust voted no. ANF, Microsoft, Certinomis, Izenpe, Kamu Sertifikasyon Merkezi and StartCom abstained. Therefore, Ballot 134 passed.
October 16, 2014 by Ben WilsonBallot 134 – Application of RFC 5280 to Pre-certificates Voting on Ballot 134 – Application of RFC 5280 to Pre-certificates closed on 16 October 2014. The Chair received “yes” votes from Actalis, Buypass, Chunghwa Telecom, Comodo, DigiCert, Disig, Entrust, GlobalSign, GoDaddy, Google, Logius PKIoverheid, Mozilla, Opera, Symantec, Trend Micro, TURKTRUST, TWCA, and WoSign. Opentrust voted no. ANF, Microsoft, Certinomis, Izenpe, Kamu Sertifikasyon Merkezi and StartCom abstained. Therefore, Ballot 134 passed.