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    Ballot 134 – Application of RFC 5280 to Pre-certificates
    October 16, 2014 by Ben WilsonBallot 134 – Application of RFC 5280 to Pre-certificates Voting on Ballot 134 – Application of RFC 5280 to Pre-certificates closed on 16 October 2014. The Chair received “yes” votes from Actalis, Buypass, Chunghwa Telecom, Comodo, DigiCert, Disig, Entrust, GlobalSign, GoDaddy, Google, Logius PKIoverheid, Mozilla, Opera, Symantec, Trend Micro, TURKTRUST, TWCA, and WoSign. Opentrust voted no. ANF, Microsoft, Certinomis, Izenpe, Kamu Sertifikasyon Merkezi and StartCom abstained. Therefore, Ballot 134 passed.
    Ballot 123 – Reuse of Information (passed)
    October 16, 2014 by Ben WilsonVoting on Ballot 123 – Reuse of Information closed on 16 October 2014. The Chair received “yes” votes from Actalis, ANF, Buypass, Certinomis, Chunghwa Telecom, Comodo, DigiCert, Disig, Entrust, GlobalSign, GoDaddy, Google, Izenpe, Kamu Sertifikasyon Merkezi, Logius PKIoverheid, Microsoft, Mozilla, Opentrust, QuoVadis, SSC, Symantec, Trend Micro, TURKTRUST, TWCA, and WoSign. Opera abstained. Therefore, Ballot 123 passed. This is the ballot from the EV working group that attempts to clarify the language in 11.
    Ballot 118 – SHA-1 Sunset (passed)
    October 16, 2014 by Ben WilsonVoting on Ballot 118 – SHA-1 Sunset closed on 16 October 2014. The Chair received “yes” votes from Actalis, ANF, Buypass, Certinomis, Chunghwa Telecom, Comodo, DigiCert, Disig, Entrust, GlobalSign, GoDaddy, Google, Izenpe, Kamu Sertifikasyon Merkezi, Logius PKIoverheid, Microsoft, Mozilla, Opentrust, Opera, QuoVadis, SSC, StartCom, Symantec, Trend Micro, TURKTRUST, TWCA, and WoSign. SECOM Trust Systems voted no. There were no abstentions. Therefore, Ballot 118 passed. Kelvin Yiu of Microsoft made the following motion, and Kirk Hall from Trend Micro and Ryan Sleevi from Google have endorsed it.
    Ballot 125 – CAA Records (passed)
    October 14, 2014 by Ben WilsonBallot 125 – CAA Records Voting on Ballot 125 – CAA Records closed on 14 October 2014. The Chair received “yes” votes from Actalis, ANF, Buypass, Chunghwa Telecom, Comodo, DigiCert, Disig, Entrust, GlobalSign, GoDaddy, Google, Logius PKIoverheid, Microsoft, Mozilla, Opentrust, Opera, SECOM Trust Systems, SSC, Symantec, Trend Micro, Trustis, TWCA, and WoSign. Certinomis, Izenpe, Kamu Sertifikasyon Merkezi, TURKTRUST, and StartCom abstained. Therefore, Ballot 125 passed. Rick Andrews of Symantec made the following motion and Jeremy Rowley of Digicert and Ryan Sleevi of Google have endorsed it:
    Ballot 131 – Update to Verified Method of Communication (passed)
    September 12, 2014 by Ben WilsonVoting on Ballot 131 (Update to Verified Method of Communication) closed last Friday. Voting in favor were: Actalis, Buypass, Comodo, DigiCert, Disig, Entrust, GlobalSign, GoDaddy, OpenTrust, QuoVadis, SECOM Trust, SSC, StartCom, Symantec, Trend Micro, Trustwave, Trustis, TURKTRUST, WoSign and Mozilla. There were no votes against and no abstentions. Therefore, Ballot 131 passed. Ballot 131 – Update to Verified Method of Communication The EV Guidelines Working Group has revisited Section 11.4 of the EV Guidelines (Applicant’s Physical Existence) and has decided that it is best to split it into two separate sections.
    Ballot 129 – PSL in BR 11.1.3 (passed)
    August 4, 2014 by Ben WilsonVoting on Ballot 129 closed on 4 August 2014. Voting in Favor were: DigiCert, Disig, GlobalSign, GoDaddy, Symantec, Trend Micro, Trustwave, WoSign, and Mozilla. None were opposed and none abstained. Quorum was met and Ballot 129 passed resulting in Baseline_Requirements_V1_1_9. Gerv Markham of Mozilla made the following motion, and Ben Wilson from Digicert and Rick Andrews from Symantec have endorsed it. Reason for Ballot This ballot simply clarifies how to use the “Public Suffix List” (PSL) in Section 11.
    Ballot 126 – Operational Existence (passed)
    July 24, 2014 by Ben WilsonVoting on Ballot 126 closed on 24 July 2014. Voting in favor were Comodo, DigiCert, Network Solutions, QuoVadis, Symantec, Trend Micro, WoSign, and Mozilla. Visa abstained. Quorum was met and Ballot 126 passed, resulting in EV SSL Certificate Guidelines Version 1.5.0. Ballot 126 – Operational Existence Jeremy Rowley of Digicert made the following motion and Cecilia Kam of Symantec and Doug Beattie of GlobalSign have endorsed it: Reason(s) for Ballot 126:** Problem**(s)** **with Current Wording A – Section 11.
    Ballot 127 – Verification of Agency in EV Guidelines 11.7.2 (passes)
    July 17, 2014 by Ben WilsonVoting on Ballot 127 We received Yes votes from Actalis, Buypass, DigiCert, GlobalSign, Logius PKIoverheid, OpenTrust, QuoVadis, SECOM, Symantec, Trend Micro, Trustwave, TurkTrust, WoSign, and Mozilla. There were no Nay votes and no Abstentions. Therefore, Ballot 127 passes. Version 1.4.9 of the EV Guidelines can be found here: EV SSL Certificate Guidelines Version 1.4.9 = = = This ballot was discussed previously by the EV Working Group and by the group in attendance at the face-to-face in Eilat.
    Ballot 128 – CP Review Working Group (passes)
    July 9, 2014 by Ben WilsonVoting closed on July 9, 2014. In Favor: Buypass, DigiCert, GlobalSign, OPENTRUST, QuoVadis, SECOM, Symantec, Trend Micro, TURKTRUST, WoSign, Opera, Mozilla and Microsoft. Abstaining: Actalis Result: Ballot passes. Ballot 128 – CP Review Working Group During the CAB Forum face-to-face meeting, we discussed creating a working group to compare the NIST IR proposal and various with the existing CAB Forum work product. The group will also continue our contemplation on converting to a 3647 format to make future comparisons easier.
    Ballot 124 – Business Entity Clarification (passed)
    June 5, 2014 by Ben WilsonBallot 124 – Business Entity Clarification Voting closed on June 5, 2014. We received votes in favor from Actalis, ANF, Buypass, DigiCert, Disig, Firmaprofesional, GlobalSign, GoDaddy.com, Logius PKIoverheid, Mozilla, QuoVadis, StartCom, Symantec, Trend Micro, TURKTRUST, OpenTrust, and WoSign. There were no votes against and no abstentions. Therefore, Ballot 124 passed. The EV Guidelines Working Group identified an erroneous cross-reference in the first sentence of Section 11.2.2(3) (Business Entity Subjects). Joanna Fox of GoDaddy made the following motion, and Cecilia Kam of Symantec and Ben Wilson from DigiCert have endorsed it.
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