I think your list of 23 is wrong. For example, bug 1550645 is just waiting for 
Mozilla closure. It looks like 1605804 is in the same boat.

-----Original Message-----
From: dev-security-policy <[email protected]> On 
Behalf Of Matthias van de Meent via dev-security-policy
Sent: Monday, May 18, 2020 1:04 PM
To: MDSP <[email protected]>
Subject: Status of the bugzilla bug list

All,

I have looked at the list of open bugs in the CA compliance dashboard [0], and 
I was unpleasantly suprised. There's a total of 75 open issues at the moment of 
writing, of which 31 have not seen an update in 4 weeks, and of which again 23 
[1] are not waiting for a planned future CA or Mozilla action; 30% of the open 
issues, spread over 14 CAs. (These 23 include issues that end with actions like 
"A: We will do this" and "B: We will do that at 'date-long-gone'" when there is 
no indication the action has been taken, and no update since.)

Of those 23, 17 have not seen interactions for over 2 months. (!)

The MRSP (v2.7) requires regular updates for incident reports until the bug is 
marked as resolved. This means that a CA MUST actively keep track of the issue, 
even though this is not always understood by CAs [2]. I can understand that it 
is not always clear what information is still needed to close a bug, but please 
ask for this information on the issue when this is not known, so that there are 
no 'zombie'
tickets.

To remedy the issue of 'many long-standing open CA-Compliance issues with 
unclear state', I would like - as a concerned individual and end user of the 
root store - to ask the relevant CAs and Mozilla to check their issues in the 
ca-compliance board [0], check whether the issues are 'solved' or what 
information they need, and update the relevant issues with the updated 
information or ask for said missing information, so that there is a clear 
understanding which issues are resolved and which issues need more information 
/ actions by some party in the issue. As stated before, this process is not 
always clear to all CAs [2], and in my experience explicit communication helps 
a lot in checking what is needed to solve an issue.


Kind regards,

Matthias van de Meent


[0] 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?product=NSS&component=CA%20Certificate%20Compliance&bug_status=__open__
[1] 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?product=NSS&component=CA%20Certificate%20Compliance&bug_id=1593776%2C1605804%2C1623356%2C1550645%2C1625767%2C1502957%2C1620561%2C1575022%2C1590810%2C1578505%2C1463975%2C1496616%2C1614448%2C1559765%2C1606380%2C1532559%2C1599916%2C1551372%2C1610767%2C1575530%2C1597950%2C1597947%2C1597948&bug_id_type=anyexact&list_id=15253621&query_format=advanced
[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1613409
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