As announced previously by Rob Stradling, there is an agreement for private investment firm GI Partners, out of San Francisco, CA, to acquire Sectigo. Press release: https://sectigo.com/resource-library/sectigo-to-be-acquired-by-gi-partners.
I am treating this as a change of legal ownership covered by section 8.1 <https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/governance/policies/security-group/certs/policy/#81-change-in-legal-ownership> of the Mozilla Root Store Policy, which states: > If the receiving or acquiring company is new to the Mozilla root program, > it must demonstrate compliance with the entirety of this policy and there > MUST be a public discussion regarding their admittance to the root program, > which Mozilla must resolve with a positive conclusion in order for the > affected certificate(s) to remain in the root program. In order to comply with policy, I hereby formally announce the commencement of a 3-week discussion period for this change in legal ownership of Sectigo by requesting thoughtful and constructive feedback from the community. Sectigo has already stated that it foresees no effect on its operations due to this ownership change, and I believe that the acquisition announced by Sectigo and GI Partners is compliant with Mozilla policy. Thanks, Ben _______________________________________________ dev-security-policy mailing list dev-security-policy@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-security-policy
