Proceedings

Ballot 110 – Motion to Adopt Version 1.1 of the Bylaws(failed)

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 …

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2014-01-30 Minutes

MINUTES OF CA/BROWSER FORUM 30 JANUARY 2014 Dean Coclin read the antitrust statement at the bottom of the agenda. 1.  Roll Call:  Dean Coclin, Eran Messeri, Rick Andrews, Kirk Hall, Eddy Nigg, Doug Beattie, Eneli Kirme, Mads Henriksveen, Sissel Hoel, Gerv Markham, Imren Altepe, Robin Alden, Atsushi Inaba, Ryan Sleevi, Tom Albertson, Rich Smith, Ben Wilson, Wayne Thayer 2.  Agenda …

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Ballot 114 – Improvements to the EV Definitions(passed)

Voting on Ballot 114 closed on 28 January 2014 with votes cast as follows:  Yes: ANF, Buypass, CERTUM, Comodo, DigiCert, GlobalSign, Logius PKIoverheid, QuoVadis, Symantec, Trend Micro, Trustis, TURKTRUST and Mozilla. No: None. Abstain: None. Result: Ballot passes Cecilia Kam from Symantec made the following motion, and Jeremy Rowley from DigiCert and Kirk Hall from Trend Micro endorsed it.  This …

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Ballot 115 – Invited Guest to Meeting 31

Motion by Ben Wilson Endorsed by Symantec and Trend Micro on 1/22/2014 Pursuant to Section 5.4 of the Bylaws, “other persons” may be invited by the Chair in the Chair’s discretion to participate in a CA/Browser Forum Meeting based on a person’s relevant expertise. In light of recent discussion and the proposed Ballot 110, which if endorsed will not complete …

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Ballot 89 – Publish Recommendations for the Processing of EV SSL Certificates v.2(passes)

Voting on Ballot 89 closed.  Ten voted in favor – Buypass, Comodo, D-TRUST, DigiCert, GoDaddy, Izenpe, SSC, Symantec, Trend Micro, and Opera. Mozilla abstained.  There were none opposed. Therefore, Ballot 89 passes. Motion: Rick Andrews made the following motion, and Ben Wilson and Kirk Hall endorsed it: Motion begins The CA/Browser Forum authorizes the publication of “Recommendations for the Processing …

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Ballot 113 – Revision to QIIS in EV Guidelines(passes)

Ballot 113 – Revision to QIIS in EV Guidelines Voting ended on 13 January 2014.  Quorum was 6 and 21 votes were cast—20 by CAs and 1 by Browsers.   Twenty votes were in favor of the amendment.  Izenpe abstained.  Therefore, the ballot passes. The following proposal comes from EV working group. Jeremy Rowley made the following motion, and Rich Smith …

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2014-01-02 Minutes

2 January 2014 Version 1 1.  Roll Call:  Moudrick Dadashov, Caroline Oldenburg, Dean Coclin, Atsushi Inaba, Ben Wilson, Doug Beattie, Atilla Biler, Mads Henriksveen, Sissel Hoel, Rich Smith, Ryan Sleevi, Eneli Kirme, Jeremy Rowley, Rick Andrews, Imren Altepe, Robin Alden, and Kirk Hall 2.  Agenda Review:  Approved as presented. 3.  Minutes:  Minutes of 19 December 2013 were approved for publication …

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2013-12-19 Minutes

Notes of meeting CAB Forum 19 December  2013 Version 2 1.  Roll Call:  Phill Hallam-Baker, Atsushi Inaba, Ben Wilson, Doug Beattie, Atilla Biler, Dean Coclin, Mads Henriksveen, Wayne Thayer, Caroline Oldenburg, Steve Roylance, Eddy Nigg, Rich Smith, Ryan Sleevi, Eneli Kirme, Gerv Markham, Jeremy Rowley, Erwann Abalea, and Rick Andrews 2.  Agenda Review:  Rick Andrews asked that we discuss whether …

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2013-12-05 Minutes

Notes of meeting CAB Forum 5 December 2013 Version 1 1.  Roll Call:  Dean Coclin, Ben Wilson, Atsushi Inaba, Sissel Hoel, Tom Albertson, Gerv Markham, Caroline Oldenburg, Kirk Hall, Doug Beattie, Richard Wang, Jeremy Rowley, Moudrick Dadashov, Wayne Thayer, Rich Smith, Robin Alden, Rick Andrews, Imren Altepe, Atilla Biler, Ryan Sleevi, Eneli Kirme, Mads Henriksveen, Stephen Davidson 2.  Agenda Review:  …

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Ballot 111 – Accelerate Max Certificate Lifetime Reduction Timetable

Ballot 111 – Accelerate Max Certificate Lifetime Reduction Timetable Gervase Markham (Mozilla) made the following motion, endorsed by Eddy Nigg from StartCom and Ryan Hurst from Globalsign: — Motion begins — The CAB Forum wishes to take advantage of the /de facto/ deprecation of the near-ubiquitous SHA-1 hash algorithm in the Web PKI and its 1 January 2017 retirement by …

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