Ben Wilson

Minutes of the F2F 29 Meeting in Munich, Germany, 11-13 June 2013

These are the consolidated minutes of the Munich Face-to-Face meeting held June 11-12, 2013.  Differences in writing/formatting styles are attributable to the fact that the minutes were transcribed by different persons. Opening: Dean Coclin welcomed everyone to Symantec’s offices and reviewed the logistics. Ben Wilson read the antitrust statement. Updates from Browsers and Other News Representatives from Opera, Mozilla, and …

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Ballot 101 – EV 11.10.2 Accountants

Ballot 101 – Section 11.10.2 of EV Guidelines – Accountant Licensing (Passed) Motion Ryan Koski made the following motion, and Ben Wilson from DigiCert and Rich Smith from Comodo endorsed it: Motion Begins EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY, in order to eliminate a conflict in the Extended Validation Guidelines between the definition of Accounting Practitioner in Section 4 (Definitions) mentioning “country” and the …

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Ballot 102 – BR 9.2.3 domainComponent

Ballot 102 – BR 9.2.3 domainComponents (Passed) Motion Jeremy Rowley of DigiCert made the following motion, and Robin Alden from Comodo and Geoffrey Keating from Apple endorsed it: Motion Begins EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY, in order to conform to requirements of other industry bodies, including the Internet Grid Trust Federation, and to allow the encoding of domain components in certificates that interact …

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2013-05-30 Minutes

Notes of meeting CAB Forum 30 May 2013 1.  Present:  Jeremy Rowley, Dean Coclin, Stephen Davidson, Ben Wilson, Kirk Hall, Geoff Keating, Ryan Koski, Mert Ozarar, Tom Albertson, Joe Kaluzny, Robin Alden, Ryan Sleevi, Connie Enke, Atsushi Inaba, Gerv Markham, Eddy Nigg,  Wayne Thayer, Brad Hill, Phill Hallam Baker ICANN Presenters: Francisco Arias, Tomofumi Okubo, Jeff Moss, and Steve Sheng …

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2013-05-16 Minutes

Notes of meeting – CAB Forum – 16 May 2013 – Version 1 1.             Roll Call:  Ben Wilson, Rich Smith, Wayne Thayer, Mads Henriksveen, Rick Andrews, Dean Coclin, Geoff Keating, Eddy Nigg, Simon Labrum, Atsushi Inaba, Arno Fiedler, Jeremy Rowley, Ryan Koski, Tom Albertson, Atilla Biler, Robin Alden, Philip Hallam Baker, Ryan Sleevi 2.             Agenda Review:  Agenda was reviewed. 3.             …

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Ballot 99 – Add DSA Keys

Ballot 99 – Add DSA Keys (Passed) … Motion Begins … … Erratum Begins … In the Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted Certificates, Appendix A, add to each of the tables (1) Root CA Certificates, (2) Subordinate CA Certificates, and (3) Subscriber Certificates a new row with these three column entries (comma-separated): Minimum DSA modulus and …

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2013-05-02 Minutes

Notes of meeting CAB Forum 2 May 2013 Version 2 1. Present: Steve Roylance, Ryan Koski, Erwann Abalea, Mads Henriksveen, Atilla Biler, Mert Ozarar, Ben Wilson, Eddie Nigg, Dean Coclin, Arno Fiedler, Jeremy Rowley, Wayne Thayer, Joe Kaluzny, Robin Alden, Gerv Markham, Rich Smith, Stephen Davidson, Phillip Hallam Baker, Rick Andrews and Geoff Keating Guests: Andy Regenscheid, Deb Cooley, Mike …

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Announcing the formation of the Code Signing Working Group – Call for Participants

The CA/Browser Forum has chartered a Code Signing Working Group, the purpose of which is to come up with Baseline Requirements to reduce the incidences of signed malware. The CA/Browser Forum would like to invite interested third parties to participate. The working group meets bi-weekly by phone and had its first face to face meeting in Munich on June 13th …

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