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Ballot 77 – Emergency Extension of IPR Requirements (Passed) Motion Jeremy Rowley made the following motion, and Kirk Hall and Robin Alden endorsed it: The Forum’s IPR Policy requires each member to sign the IPR agreement and disclose all IP assets containing an Essential Claim (as defined in the IPR) on or before June 7, 2012. A failure to comply …

Ballot 73 – Public Mail-List (Passed Unanimously) Motion Tim Moses made the following motion, and Eddy Nigg and Gerv Markham endorsed it: … Motion begins … The Forum requests the list manager to establish a new Forum mail list called cabfpub@cabforum.org. Current subscribers to the “management” mail list should be subscribed to the cabfpub@cabforum.org list with no action required on …

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 …

Ballot 66 – Project Lifecycle (Passed) Motion Jeremy Rowley made the following motion, and Mads Henriksveen and Tim Moses endorsed it: Motion begins Effective immediately: The CA/Browser Forum adopts the Project Lifecycle model: https://cabforum.org/wiki/ProjectLifecycle And agrees to follow this model in all applicable projects. The ballot review period comes into effect at 2100 UTC on 2 Mar ’12 and will …

This ballot was withdrawn.

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 20 – ETSI Letter of Intent (Passed Unanimously) Motion Ben Wilson made the following motion, and Tom Albertson and Iñigo Barreira endorsed it. Motion begins   The members authorize Tim Moses to sign the attached “Letter of Intent to cooperate between CA/Browser Forum and ETSI” as Chairperson of the CA/Browser Forum without recourse or liability to Mr. Moses or …

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 …

Ballot 4 – Browser Voting Rules (Passed Unanimously) Motion The following motion was made by Johnathan Nightingale and seconded by Bruce Morton and Jay Schiavo ‘The CABForum voting rules will be amended as follows: The sentence: “In order for the motion to carry, two-thirds or more of the votes cast by the permanent members in the CA category must be …

Ballot 2 – Security Committee (Failed Quorum) Motion “The CABForum adopts the procedures for a security committee as described in ‘CABForum security committee, draft 2, 2007-06-14’ (as distributed by Gervase Markham on 19 June 2007), for a trial period not to exceed six months.  The procedures and the duration of the trial period may be revised by a similar ballot …