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Posts by author Ben Wilson

    Ballot 10 – Non-Latin Names
    February 12, 2008 by Ben WilsonBallot 10 – Non-Latin Names (Passed) Motion The Guidelines should be amended by the following erratum. Erratum begins Appendix F
    Ballot 8 – Foreign Organization Name
    February 12, 2008 by Ben WilsonBallot 8 – Foreign Organization Name (Passed) Motion Tony Berman has accepted amendments to his motion: Motion begins The Guidelines should be amended by the following erratum.
    Ballot 7 – Parent Subsidiary
    February 3, 2008 by Ben WilsonBallot 7 – Parent Subsidiary (Passed Unanimously) Motion Tony Berman has made the following motion, and Peri Drucker and Bruce Morton have endorsed it: Motion begins The Guidelines should be amended by the following erratum.
    Ballot 6 – Non Commercial Entity Type
    February 3, 2008 by Ben WilsonBallot 6 – Non Commercial Entity Type (Passed Unanimously) Motion Tony Berman has made the following motion, and Peri Drucker and Bruce Morton have endorsed it: Motion begins The Guidelines should be amended by the following erratum.
    Ballot 9 – Physical Address
    February 1, 2008 by Ben WilsonThis ballot was withdrawn.
    Ballot 5 – Quorum
    January 18, 2008 by Ben WilsonBallot 5 – Quorum (Passed Unanimously) Motion Tim Moses made the following motion, and Johnathan Nightingale and Nick Hales endorsed it: “Clause 7 of the CABForum’s voting rules shall be replaced with the following clause: ‘7. A ballot result will be considered valid only when more than half of the number of currently active members has participated. The number of currently active members is the average number of member organizations that have participated in the previous three meetings (both teleconferences and face-to-face meetings)’”
    Ballot 4 – Browser Voting Rules
    December 15, 2007 by Ben WilsonBallot 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 in favor of the motion, and half or more of the votes cast by the permanent members in the browser category must be in favor of the motion” will be replaced by 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 in favor of the motion, and at least 50% plus one of the votes cast by the permanent members in the browser category must be in favor of the motion”.
    Ballot 3 – Drop UTF-8 English Encoding Requirement From Business Category
    September 11, 2007 by Ben WilsonBallot 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
    Ballot 2 – Security Committee
    June 29, 2007 by Ben WilsonBallot 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 at any time. At the end of the trial period, a review of the effectiveness of the procedures will be conducted. Based upon the results of the review, the procedures will either be confirmed or revised by another ballot similar to this one.”
    Ballot 1 – Version 1.0 of Extended Validation Guidelines Approved
    June 7, 2007 by Ben WilsonOn 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.
    The Certification Authority Browser Forum (CA/Browser Forum) is a voluntary gathering of Certificate Issuers and suppliers of Internet browser software and other applications that use certificates (Certificate Consumers).