Ballots

Ballot 153 – Short-Lived Certificates Ballot 153, Short-Lived Certificates revision, closed on November 10th 2015. The Chair received 26 votes from CAs in which 04 were in favor, 17 against and 05 abstentions and 05 votes from Browsers in which 04 were in favor, 01 against and 0 abstention. Therefore the ballot fails. The following motion has been proposed by …

This ballot was withdrawn.

Ballot 151 – Addition of Optional OIDs for Indicating Level of Validation Ballot 151, OID revisions, closed on September 28th 2015.  The Chair received 22 votes from CAs in which 19 were in favor, 0 against and 3 abstentions and 3 votes from Browsers in which 2 were in favor, 0 against and 1 abstention.  Therefore the ballot passes. The …

This ballot was withdrawn.

Voting on Ballot 149 (Membership criteria clarification) has closed.   The Forum received 17 YES votes from CA members: Buypass, Chungwa Telecom, Disig, Entrust, Globalsign, GoDaddy, HARICA, Logius PKIoverheid, OpenTrust, QuoVadis, SSC, Symantec, Trend Micro, Trustwave, TurkTrust, Visa and WoSign and 3 YES votes from Browser members: Google, Opera and Mozilla. Three Abstain votes were received from CA members Actalis, …

Ballot 147 – Attorney-Accountant Letter Changes   Voting on Ballot 147 has closed. Here are the results: From CA’s, we received 15 YES votes, 0 NO votes and 3 ABSTAIN votes From Browsers, we received 1 YES vote, 0 NO votes and 0 ABSTAIN votes The quorum has been met and the ballot passes. Reason for Ballot This is a …

Ballot 146 – Convert Baseline Requirements to RFC 3647 Framework Voting has closed on Ballot 146, “Convert Baseline Requirements” Among CAs, there were 18 YES votes, 1 NO vote and 2 Abstentions Among Browsers, there was 1 YES vote and 1 Abstention Therefore, the ballot passes. Here are  Version 1.3.0 and a helpful Conversion Table —————————————- The Certificate Policy Review Working …

Voting on Ballot 148, Issuer Field Correction, closed on 2 April 2015. We received 13 YES votes from CAs, 0 NO votes and 0 Abstentions We received 1 YES vote from Browsers, 0 NO votes and 0 Abstentions Therefore the ballot passes. Several votes were received after the ballot closed and were not counted.  Full details are on the ballot …

Ballot 145 – Operational Existence for Government Entities Reason Because government entities aren’t operating as businesses, they are often not listed with a QIIS, especially immediately after the entity is created by either statute or order. The legal existence of these entities is verifiable through a QGIS, but this source in many countries (especially Arabic and African countries) does not …

Ballot 144 – Validation Rules for .onion Names – passed with 6 Yes votes, 2 No votes and 13 Abstentions from the CAs and 3 Yes votes from the browsers. Detailed results are on the Forum’s ballot tracker (Ballot Results – Vote Tally at the bottom of the Ballots page on the Forum’s wiki). Ballot 144 reads as follows: Applicants …