Governance

Ballot 94 – Adoption of CA/Browser Forum Bylaws (Passed Unanimously) Motion Kirk Hall made the following motion and it was endorsed by Wayne Thayer and Jeremy Rowley. –Motion Begins– A. Be it resolved that the CA / Browser Forum adopts the following set of Bylaws. –Bylaws Begin– Proposed CA-Browser Forum Bylaws_(v4) Trend Micro 8 Nov 2012.doc Proposed CA-Browser Forum Bylaws_(v4) …

Ballot 91 – Chair and Vice-Chair Election (Passed) Motion Kirk Hall made the following motion, and Gerv Markham, Ryan Hurst, and Eddy Nigg endorsed it: Motion begins RESOLVED: That Ben Wilson be elected Chair of the CA/Browser Forum for a two-year term, and that Dean Coclin be elected as Vice Chair of the CA/Browser Forum for a two-year term (to …

In order to protect the Intellectual Property of its members, the CA/Browser forum has adopted an IPR policy which has been signed by over 30 companies including the biggest names in the technology industry. The complete list of current members is here: https://cabforum.org/forum.html. The policy can be found on the IPR Policy page:  IPR Policy  

During last week’s meeting in Norway, the CA/Browser Forum agreed to advance four governance proposal through a voting process that will result in the decision to keep the current structire in place, or to adopt one of the four new proposals. The proposals are published here for public review and comment:   DigiCert Microsoft PayPal Trend Micro Please send comments …

All responses that the CA/Browser Forum received from the call for position papers and statements of interest on organizational reform have been published to the Web site: Organizational Reform Submissions

Ballot 67 – Adopt IPR Policy (Passed) Motion Jeremy Rowley made the following motion, and Gervase Markham and Dean Coclin endorsed it: Motion begins As of April 8, 2012 (“Effective Date”), the CA/Browser Forum adopts Rev. 0_99.2 of ‘CA/Browser Forum Intellectual Property Rights Policy’ and the ‘CAB Forum IPR Policy Agreement’ – available at: https://cabforum.org/wiki/Intellectual%20Property%20Rights?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=IPR+Policy+Draft+99-2.pdf and https://cabforum.org/wiki/Intellectual%20Property%20Rights?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=IPR+Agreement+Draft+99.pdf respectively, as v1.0 …

The CA/Browser Forum is a voluntary organization of leading certification authorities (CAs) and vendors of Internet browser software and other applications. At the twenty fifth face to face meeting of the CA/Browser Forum, held in Santa Clara, California, USA on February 22 and 23rd, 2012, the membership agreed to form a working group on organizational reform. The task of this …

Ballot 28 – Membership Criteria (Failed Quorum) Motion Tim Moses has made the following motion, and Ben Wilson and Moudrick Dadashov have endorsed it: Motion begins The Forum should adopt the following membership criteria immediately upon successful completion of the ballot. Membership criteria, CA / Browser Forum Version 06 Voting members of the CA/Browser Forum shall meet at least one …

Ballot 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 …