Governance

Pursuant to Section 4.1 of the CA/Browser Forum’s IPR Policy, this is notice of the commencement of a 30-day IPR maintenance-guideline review period by which certain provisions of the IPR will become applicable to these recent changes made to the EV Code Signing Guidelines by Ballot 117. Ballot 117 clarified what is allowed in the Common Name and Subject Alternative …

Pursuant to Section 4.1 of the CA/Browser Forum’s IPR Policy, this is notice of the commencement of a 30-day IPR maintenance-guideline review period by which certain provisions of the IPR will become applicable to these recent changes made to the EV Guidelines by Ballots 113, 114, 119, 120, and 124. Ballot 113 revised the definition of a Qualified Independent Information …

Pursuant to Section 4.1 of the CA/Browser Forum’s IPR Policy, this is notice of the commencement of a 30-day IPR maintenance-guideline review period by which certain provisions of the IPR will become applicable to these recent changes made to the Baseline Requirements by Ballots 112 and 120. Ballot 112 replaced “Internal Server Name” with use of the term “Internal Name” …

CA/Browser Forum Revises Bylaws for Associate Members On March 25, 2014, the CA/Browser Forum adopted version 1.1 of its bylaws to recognize its long-standing relationships, industry liaisons, and involvement of other organizations in the Forum’s activities. These have included the AICPA/CICA WebTrust Task Force, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, and several other organizations. A copy of these new bylaws is …

Ballot 116 – Associate Member Category Yea: ANF, Certinomis, DigiCert, GlobalSign, Izenpe, Logius PKIoverheid, OpenTrust, QuoVadis, SECOM Trust, SSC, StartCom, Symantec, Trend Micro, Trustis, WoSign, Microsoft, and Mozilla Nay: None Abstain: None Results: Ballot passed   Ben Wilson of DigiCert made the following motion, and Dean Coclin from Symantec and Ryan Sleevi from Google endorsed it:  Motion Begins In order …

With 6 “yes” votes from CAs (Digicert, Symantec, TrendMicro, Disig, GlobalSign, and SECOM) and 2 “no” votes from Browsers (Mozilla and Google), Ballot 110 made quorum but did not pass. On 22 January 2014, Ben Wilson of DigiCert made the following motion, endorsed by Robin Alden of Comodo and Dean Coclin of Symantec: –Motion Begins– Be it resolved that the …

Pursuant to Section 4.1 of the CA/Browser Forum’s IPR Policy, this is notice of the commencement of a 30-day IPR maintenance-guideline review period by which certain provisions of the IPR will become applicable to these recent changes made to the EV Guidelines (by Ballots 101 and 104). During this IPR review period you are to review these amendments and consider …

The following changes have been made to the Baseline Requirements since the last Notice of IPR Review Period: Ballot 96 amended sections 11.1.3 and 11.1.4 dealing with Wildcards and new gTLDs. Ballot 97 – Prevention of Unknown Certificate Contents – amended section 10.2.3 and Appendix B and also addressed RFC 5280. Ballot 99 added an allowance for DSA keys to …

Ballot 98 – Public Voting (Passed) Motion Gervase Markham made the following motion, and Jeremy Rowley and Kirk Hall endorsed it: … Motion Begins … The CAB Forum wishes to require that the votes of Members on CAB Forum ballots be public information. For avoidance of doubt, a consequence of this change is that the voting information for ballots will …

On November 23, 2012, the CA/Browser Forum adopted its first formal bylaws that document and update the forum’s rules of governance, including rules for public participation in the forum’s activities.