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    2012-10-25 Minutes
    October 25, 2012 by Ben WilsonNotes of meeting CAB Forum 25 October 2012 Version 1 Present: Ben Wilson, Atsushi Inaba, Kirk Hall, Gerv Markham, Brad Hill, Jeremy Rowley, Wayne Thayer, Rick Andrews, Dean Coclin, Eddy Nigg, Ryan Koski, Mads Henriksveen, Marc Braner, Yngve Pettersen, and Geoff Keating Agenda review The agenda was reviewed and Item 7 (Review of IPR Policy) was moved ahead of Item 4 (Ballot 89). Minutes of Meeting 11-October-2012 Minutes of 11 October 2012 were approved as published.
    2012-10-11 Minutes
    October 11, 2012 by Ben WilsonNotes of meeting CAB Forum 11 October 2012 Version 1 Present: Dean Coclin, Ben Wilson, Atsushi Inaba, Kirk Hall, Eddy Nigg, Mads Henriksveen, Sissel Hoel, Jeremy Rowley, Brad Hill, Geoff Keating, Gerv Markham, Robin Alden, Rick Andrews, and Ryan Koski Agenda review The agenda was reviewed. Minutes of Meeting 20-Sept-2012 Minutes of 20 September 2012 were approved as published. Ballot status It was noted that the only open ballot was Ballot 91 for election of a chair and vice-chair. Dean asked about Ballot 89, and Rick said that he was updating the EV processing requirements based on comments from Kathleen Wilson. The group noted that Yngve’s proposed ballot on BR issues 6, 8, 10 and 21 had been posted on the wiki. Ben said he still needed to clean it up and assign a ballot number to it. On BR issues 15 and 29, those had been modified a bit by Rick, but after Bruce left Steve Roylance became the owner of it. Dean asked Atsushi to touch base with Steve. Ben asked about whether there was still any confusion between IDNA2003 and IDNA2008. Brad said that we’re moving to IDNA2008, which is good.
    2012-09-20 Minutes
    September 20, 2012 by Ben WilsonNotes of meeting CAB Forum 20 September 2012 Version 1 Present: Dean Coclin, Ben Wilson, Atsushi Inaba, Rich Smith, Phillip Hallam-Baker, Kirk Hall, Eddy Nigg, Jeremy Rowley, Brad Hill, Gerv Markham, Patricia Forsythe, Robin Alden, Rick Andrews, Bill Maddell Agenda review The agenda was reviewed. Minutes of Meeting 6-Sept-2012 Minutes of 6 September 2012 were approved as published. Ballot status Ballot 89 (Requirements for the Processing of EV SSL Certificates v.2) failed for lack of quorum. Rick noted that Tom had objected to the ballot because he was concerned that it had not been adequately reviewed or modified to incorporate browser comments. Subsequently Rick and Ben had modified and resubmitted a new draft of the requirements during the review period and before voting had begun. They explained that voting did not proceed on Ballot 89 because the sponsor and endorsers felt that the document needed one more review before being voted on. Kirk asked whether voting periods are announced, and Ben explained that the practice has been for voting to begin immediately after the review period without any announcement. Ben said that he would re-send a new ballot with the attached document and announce a review period.
    2012-09-06 Minutes
    September 6, 2012 by Ben WilsonNotes of meeting CAB Forum 6 September 2012 Version 1 Present: Phill Hallam-Baker, Chris Palmer, Ben Wilson, Eddy Nigg, Jeremy Rowley, Simon Labramm, Kirk Hall, Steve Roylance, Wayne Thayer, Atsushi Inaba, Rick Andrews, Rich Smith, Brad Hill, Robin Alden, Geoff Keating, Mads Henriksveen, Patricia Forsyth. Quorum equals 6. Agenda review The agenda was reviewed. Minutes of Meeting 23-Aug-2012 Minutes of 23 August 2012 were approved as published. Ballot status Three items were discussed under this agenda item: (1) abbreviating the voting process for replacement proposals; (2) the adoption/publication of Requirements for the Processing of EV SSL Certificates v.2; and (3) BR Issues 15 and 29.
    2012-08-23 Minutes
    August 23, 2012 by Ben WilsonNotes of meeting CAB Forum 23 August 2012 Present: Ben Wilson, Eddy Nigg, Jeremy Rowley, Mads Henriksveen, Sissel Hoel, Atsushi Inaba, Gerv Markham, Rick Andrews, Yngve Pettersen, Rich Smith, Brad Hill, Bill Madell, Robin Alden, Geoff Keating, and Ryan Sleevi. Quorum equals 6. Agenda review The agenda was reviewed. Minutes of Meeting 9-Aug-2012 Minutes of 9 August 2012 were approved as published. Ballot status Ballots 85 and 86 were reviewed. Rich mentioned that if Ballot 86 passes, then the ISO-3166 directorate will need to be notified that the CAB Forum is using the single user-defined country code of “XX” when an official ISO code has not been assigned. On the ballot for BR Issues 15 & 29, Rick noted that he had received comments from Steve Roylance who wanted to (a) disallow non-FQDNs and internal IP addresses in the CN and (b) require that the CA put Org Info in certificates with internal names/IP addresses. Jeremy stated that DigiCert was in support of Steve’s request. Rick said that the second request would require additional engineering, since it wasn’t in the original BRs. Ben said that there was a discussion about this previously, and Jeremy said that a resolution of the issue was postponed and that it is the right time to bring the discussion up again for resolution. It was decided that further discussion on the issue of organizational validation was needed. Rick also noted that the part of the proposal dealing with IDNs raised engineering concerns because Unicode can be tricky. It is not just an issue of confusion caused by mixed character sets, but it also must be screened for mixing of scripts, bi-directional characters, etc. He said it was essential that we identify Unicode libraries in this area because it can be just as susceptible to mistake as crypto, and that is why we have crypto libraries. Brad said he would contact Chris Weber of Casaba Security who has worked on Unicode libraries in this area and see if he has anything to suggest.
    2012-08-09 Minutes
    August 9, 2012 by Ben WilsonNotes of meeting CAB Forum 9 August 2012 Version 1 Present: Ben Wilson, Eddy Nigg, Jeremy Rowley, Gerv Markham, Sid Stamm, Rick Andrews, Kirk Hall, Dean Coclin, Joe Kaluzny, Chris Bailey, Wayne Thayer, Steve Roylance, Yngve Pettersen, Rich Smith, Brad Hill, Robin Alden, Stephen Davidson, Tom Albertson, Phill Hallam-Baker, Moudrick Dadashov, Ryan Koski, and Geoff Keating. Quorum equals 7. Agenda review The agenda was reviewed. Minutes of Meeting 26-Jul-2012 Minutes of 26 July 2012 were approved as published.
    2012-07-26 Minutes
    July 26, 2012 by Ben WilsonNotes of meeting CAB Forum 26 July 2012 Version 1 Present Tim Moses, Wayne Thayer, Atsushi Inaba, Brad Hill, Dean Coclin, Eddy Nigg, Bruce Morton, Geoff Keating, Rick Andrews, Renne Rodriguez, Yngve Pettersen, Jeremy Rowley, Carsten Dahlenkamp Agenda review The agenda was accepted as published. Minutes of meetings on 12 July The minutes were accepted as published. Ballots status Ballot 80 opens for voting later today. Ballot 82 closes next Tuesday.
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