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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
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
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 186 – Limiting the Reuse of Validation Information
February 15, 2017 by Ben WilsonThis ballot lacked endorsers.
February 15, 2017 by Ben WilsonThis ballot lacked endorsers.
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.
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.
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.
Ballot 180 – Readopting the BRs, EVGL, EV Code Signing, and NCSSR Guidelines with Amendments
January 7, 2017 by Ben WilsonBallot 180 has passed – see results below. Ballot 180 Results CAs – 18 yes, 0 no, 3 abstain (plus one yes vote on the Management list, which will not be counted) Browsers – 5 yes, 0 no, 0 abstain Result: Ballot 180 passes (requires 2/3 affirmative vote by CAs and majority affirmative vote by browsers). Quorum is 10 votes – quorum achieved. CA Votes on Ballot 180: 18 yes on Public list – Amazon, ANF Autoridad de Certif.
January 7, 2017 by Ben WilsonBallot 180 has passed – see results below. Ballot 180 Results CAs – 18 yes, 0 no, 3 abstain (plus one yes vote on the Management list, which will not be counted) Browsers – 5 yes, 0 no, 0 abstain Result: Ballot 180 passes (requires 2/3 affirmative vote by CAs and majority affirmative vote by browsers). Quorum is 10 votes – quorum achieved. CA Votes on Ballot 180: 18 yes on Public list – Amazon, ANF Autoridad de Certif.
Ballot 176 – Addition of CNAME verification to domain validation methods
September 15, 2016 by Ben WilsonThis ballot was never presented.
September 15, 2016 by Ben WilsonThis ballot was never presented.
Ballot 175 – Addition of given name and surname
September 7, 2016 by Ben WilsonVoting on Ballot 175, Addition of given name and surname, has now closed. The results are as follows: From the CA’s, we received 13 YES votes, 0 NO votes and 1 Abstention From the Browsers, we received 2 YES votes, 0 NO votes and 1 Abstention Therefore the ballot passes. Full ballot results can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FBsMZjlzyvK3mFR1u4qMqvZwlI86yJ-v0am1pCBo8uI/edit#gid=4 Thanks, Dean Coclin CA/B Forum Chair Ballot 17****5 – Addition of givenName/surname The following motion has been proposed by Jeremy Rowley of DigiCert and endorsed by Richard Wang of WoSign and Eddy Nigg of StartCom:
September 7, 2016 by Ben WilsonVoting on Ballot 175, Addition of given name and surname, has now closed. The results are as follows: From the CA’s, we received 13 YES votes, 0 NO votes and 1 Abstention From the Browsers, we received 2 YES votes, 0 NO votes and 1 Abstention Therefore the ballot passes. Full ballot results can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FBsMZjlzyvK3mFR1u4qMqvZwlI86yJ-v0am1pCBo8uI/edit#gid=4 Thanks, Dean Coclin CA/B Forum Chair Ballot 17****5 – Addition of givenName/surname The following motion has been proposed by Jeremy Rowley of DigiCert and endorsed by Richard Wang of WoSign and Eddy Nigg of StartCom:
Ballot 174 – Reform of Requirements Relating to Conflict with Local Laws
August 29, 2016 by Ben WilsonVoting on Ballot 174, “Reform of requirements relating to conflict with local laws” has now closed. The results are as follows: From the CAs, we received 21 YES votes, 0 NO votes and 1 Abstention From the Browsers, we received 3 YES votes, 0 NO votes and 0 Abstentions Therefore the ballot passes. CAs are required to make this change to their processes by a date 90 days from the date this ballot passes.
August 29, 2016 by Ben WilsonVoting on Ballot 174, “Reform of requirements relating to conflict with local laws” has now closed. The results are as follows: From the CAs, we received 21 YES votes, 0 NO votes and 1 Abstention From the Browsers, we received 3 YES votes, 0 NO votes and 0 Abstentions Therefore the ballot passes. CAs are required to make this change to their processes by a date 90 days from the date this ballot passes.