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    Ballot 102 – BR 9.2.3 domainComponent
    May 31, 2013 by Ben WilsonBallot 102 – BR 9.2.3 domainComponents (Passed) Motion Jeremy Rowley of DigiCert made the following motion, and Robin Alden from Comodo and Geoffrey Keating from Apple endorsed it: Motion Begins EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY, in order to conform to requirements of other industry bodies, including the Internet Grid Trust Federation, and to allow the encoding of domain components in certificates that interact with the configurations of some LDAP directories, we propose amending Section 9.2.3 of the Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted Certificates as follows:
    Ballot 99 – Add DSA Keys
    May 3, 2013 by Ben WilsonBallot 99 – Add DSA Keys (Passed) Motion begins Erratum begins In the Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted Certificates, Appendix A, add to each of the tables (1) Root CA Certificates, (2) Subordinate CA Certificates, and (3) Subscriber Certificates a new row with these three column entries (comma-separated): Minimum DSA modulus and divisor size (bits) ***, L= 2048, N= 224 or L= 2048, N= 256, L= 2048, N= 224 or L= 2048, N= 256
    Ballot 98 – Public Voting
    February 22, 2013 by Ben WilsonBallot 98 – Public Voting (Passed) Motion Gervase Markham made the following motion, and Jeremy Rowley and Kirk Hall endorsed it: Motion begins The CAB Forum wishes to require that the votes of Members on CAB Forum ballots be public information. For avoidance of doubt, a consequence of this change is that the voting information for ballots will be public. Therefore, effective immediately, the CAB Forum Bylaws[0] are updated as follows:
    Ballot 97 – Prevention of Unknown Certificate Contents
    February 21, 2013 by Ben WilsonBallot 97 – Prevention of Unknown Certificate Contents (Passed) Motion Jeremy Rowley made the following motion, and Ryan Hurst and Robin Alden endorsed it: Motion begins Erratum begins A. In Section 10.2.3, after the first paragraph, insert: “The CA SHALL establish and follow a documented procedure for verifying all data requested for inclusion in the Certificate by the Applicant.”
    Ballot 96 – Wildcard Certificates and New gTLDs
    February 20, 2013 by Ben WilsonBallot 96 – Wildcard Certificates and New gTLDs (Passed) Motion
    Ballot 94 – Adoption of CA/Browser Forum Bylaws
    November 23, 2012 by Ben WilsonBallot 94 – Adoption of CA/Browser Forum Bylaws (Passed Unanimously) Motion
    Ballot 93 – Reasons for Revocation (BR issues 6, 8, 10, 21)
    November 7, 2012 by Ben WilsonBallot 93 – Reasons for Revocation (BR issues 6, 8, 10, 21) (Passed Unanimously) Motion Effective immediately, except as to Part E below. Erratum begins A. (Issue #8) Add the following as 10.2.5:
    Ballot 91 – Chair and Vice-Chair Election
    October 22, 2012 by Ben WilsonBallot 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 serve as Chair in Ben Wilson’s absence).
    The Certification Authority Browser Forum (CA/Browser Forum) is a voluntary gathering of Certificate Issuers and suppliers of Internet browser software and other applications that use certificates (Certificate Consumers).