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    Ballot 194 – Effective Date of Ballot 193 Provisions
    March 20, 2017 by Ben WilsonIndeterminate – the text of this ballot will need to be located and pasted in here.
    Ballot 193 – 825-day Certificate Lifetimes
    March 17, 2017 by Ben WilsonThe voting period for Ballot 193 has ended. The ballot passed. Voting by CAs – 27 votes total including abstentions 24 Yes votes: Entrust Datacard, TurkTrust, Izenpe, Certinomis, DigiCert, Amazon, CNNIC, HARICA, GlobalSign, GDCA, Disig, Trustwave, Let’s Encrypt, Quo Vadis, SHECA, CFCA, OATI, Comodo, Buypass, Logius PKIoverheid, Cisco, Symantec, Certum, SwissSign 0 No votes: 3 Abstain: ANF Autoridad de Certificación, Secom, Actalis 100% of voting CAs voted in favor Voting by browsers – 6 votes total including abstentions 5 Yes votes: Apple, Qihoo 360, Microsoft, Opera, Google
    Ballot 187 – Make CAA Checking Mandatory
    March 8, 2017 by Ben WilsonThe voting period for Ballot 187 has ended. Here are the results. Voting by CAs – 19 votes total, including abstentions 17 Yes votes: Let’s Encrypt, Izenpe, Comodo, GoDaddy, HARICA, GDCA, Trustwave, SwissSign, Symantec, SHECA, CFCA, SSC, GlobalSign, Cisco, Buypass, DigiCert, Disig 1 No vote: Sertifitseerimiskeskus 1 Abstain: Actalis 94% of voting CAs voted in favor Voting by browsers – 3 votes total, including abstentions 3 Yes votes: Mozilla, Google, Apple
    Ballot 188 – Clarify use of term “CA” in Baseline Requirements
    March 2, 2017 by Ben WilsonResults on Ballot 188 The voting period for Ballot 188 has ended. Here are the results. Voting by CAs – 10 votes total including abstentions 3 Yes votes: Digicert, HARICA, and SwissSign 6 No votes: Entrust, GlobalSign, Symantec, Cisco, GDCA, and SHECA 1 Abstain: ANF Autoridad de Certificación 33.33% of voting CAs voted in favor Voting by browsers – 2 votes total including abstentions 0 Yes votes: 2 No votes: Mozilla, Google
    Ballot 185 – Limiting the Lifetime of Certificates
    February 24, 2017 by Ben WilsonResults on Ballot 185 The voting period for Ballot 185 has ended. Here are the results. Voting by CAs – 25 votes total plus abstentions 1 Yes vote: Let’s Encrypt 24 No votes: DigiCert, Entrust, AS Sertifitseerimiskeskus, Izenpe, ANF Autoridad de Certificación, Comodo, Certinomis, HARICA, GlobalSign, Quo Vadis, GoDaddy, Actalis, Symantec, Trustwave, CFCA, Secom, TWCA, GDCA, Certum, OATI, Buypass, SHECA, CNNIC, Cisco 3 Abstain: Logius PKI, SwissSign, Chunghwa Telecom 4% of CAs voted in favor
    Ballot 183 – Amending the Bylaws to Clarify the Ballot Approval Process
    January 31, 2017 by Ben WilsonBallot 183 was approved by a vote of 17 yes (100%), 0 no, 0 abstain by CAs, and 2 yes (100%), 0 no, 0 abstain by browsers. The quorum figure was 8 votes total, so quorum was achieved. CA yes votes: Amazon, ANF Autoridad de Certificacion, Buypass AS, Chunghwa Telecom, Cisco, Comodo, DigiCert, Disig a.s., Entrust Datacard, GlobalSign, GoDaddy, HARICA, Izenpe S.A., SwissSign AG, Symantec, Trustwave, and TurkTrust, Browser yes votes: Apple, Mozilla
    Ballot 182 – Readopting BR 3.2.2.4 (Part 2)
    January 7, 2017 by Ben WilsonBallot 182 has failed – see results below. We will send out more information on what happens next. Ballot 182 Results CAs – 0 votes Browsers – 0 votes Result: Ballot 182 fails (requires 2/3 affirmative vote by CAs and majority affirmative vote by browsers). Quorum is 10 votes – quorum not achieved.
    Ballot 181 – Readopting BR 3.2.2.4 (Part 1)
    January 7, 2017 by Ben WilsonBallot 181 has passed – see results below. We will send out more information on what happens next. Ballot 181 Results CAs – 18 yes, 0 no, 3 abstain (plus 2 yes votes on the Management list, which will not be counted) Browsers – 5 yes, 0 no, 0 abstain Result: Ballot 181 passes (requires 2/3 affirmative vote by CAs and majority affirmative vote by browsers). Quorum is 10 votes – quorum achieved.
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