On 11/3/2017 7:20 μμ, Kirk Hall via Public wrote:
Voting has started on Ballot 193 - 825-day Certificate Lifetimes
(shown below and attached). Voting will end on Friday, March 17, 2017
at 23:00 UTC.
HARICA votes "yes" to ballot 193.
Dimitris.
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*Ballot 193 - 825-day Certificate Lifetimes (REVISED v2 – March 2, 2017)*
*Purpose of Ballot:* Recent Ballot 185 demonstrated a consensus among
Forum members to reduce the maximum lifetime for DV and OV
certificates from 39 months to 825 days (roughly 27 months). This
ballot reflects that consensus, and also reduces the maximum period
for reuse of vetting data for DV and OV certificates from 39 months to
27 months.
The following motion has been proposed by Chris Bailey of Entrust
Datacard and endorsed by the following CA/B Forum member
representatives (listed in alphabetical order) Robin Alden of Comodo,
Ben Wilson of DigiCert, and Doug Beattie of GlobalSign to introduce
new Final Maintenance Guidelines for the "Baseline Requirements
Certificate Policy for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted
Certificates" (Baseline Requirements) and the "Guidelines for the
Issuance and Management of Extended Validation Certificates" (EV
Guidelines).
-- MOTION BEGINS --
*BR 4.2.1. Performing Identification and Authentication Functions*
The certificate request MAY include all factual information about the
Applicant to be included in the Certificate, and such additional
information as is necessary for the CA to obtain from the Applicant in
order to comply with these Requirements and the CA’s Certificate
Policy and/or Certification Practice Statement. In cases where the
certificate request does not contain all the necessary information
about the Applicant, the CA SHALL obtain the remaining information
from the Applicant or, having obtained it from a reliable,
independent, third‐party data source, confirm it with the Applicant.
The CA SHALL establish and follow a documented procedure for verifying
all data requested for inclusion in the Certificate by the Applicant.
Applicant information MUST include, but not be limited to, at least
one Fully‐Qualified Domain Name or IP address to be included in the
Certificate’s SubjectAltName extension.
Section 6.3.2 limits the validity period of Subscriber Certificates.
The CA MAY use the documents and data provided in Section 3.2 to
verify certificate information, provided that the CA obtained the data
or document from a source specified under Section 3.2 no more than
*_825 days_ */thirty‐nine (39) months/ prior to issuing the Certificate.
The CA SHALL develop, maintain, and implement documented procedures
that identify and require additional verification activity for High
Risk Certificate Requests prior to the Certificate’s approval, as
reasonably necessary to ensure that such requests are properly
verified under these Requirements.
If a Delegated Third Party fulfills any of the CA’s obligations under
this section, the CA SHALL verify that the process used by the
Delegated Third Party to identify and further verify High Risk
Certificate Requests provides at least the same level of assurance as
the CA’s own processes.
*BR 6.3.2. Certificate Operational Periods and Key Pair Usage Periods*
Subscriber Certificates issued after *_March 1, 2018 _*/the Effective
Date/ MUST have a Validity Period no greater than *_825 days_ */60
months/. *_Subscriber Certificates issued after 1 July 2016 /April
2015/ but prior to 1 March 2018 MUST /NOT/ have a Validity Period no
greater than thirty-nine (39) months._*
/Except as provided for below, Subscriber Certificates issued after 1
April 2015 MUST have a Validity Period no greater than 39 months./
//
/Until 30 June 2016, CAs MAY continue to issue Subscriber Certificates
with a Validity Period greater than 39 months but not greater than 60
months provided that the CA documents that the Certificate is for a
system or software that:/
//
/(a) was in use prior to the Effective Date;/
/(b) is currently in use by either the Applicant or a substantial
number of Relying Parties;/
/(c) fails to operate if the Validity Period is shorter than 60 months;/
/(d) does not contain known security risks to Relying Parties; and/
/(e) is difficult to patch or replace without substantial economic
outlay./
**
*EVGL 9.4. Maximum Validity Period For EV Certificate*
The validity period for an EV Certificate SHALL NOT exceed *_825
days_* /twenty seven months/. It is RECOMMENDED that EV Subscriber
Certificates have a maximum validity period of twelve months.
-- MOTION ENDS --
The procedure for approval of this Final Maintenance Guideline ballot
is as follows (exact start and end times may be adjusted to comply
with applicable Bylaws and IPR Agreement):
BALLOT 193
Status: Final Maintenance Guideline
Start time (23:00 UTC)
End time (23:00 UTC)
Discussion (7 to 14 days)
March 3
March 10
Vote for approval (7 days)
March 10
March 17
If vote approves ballot: Review Period (Chair to send Review Notice)
(30 days).
If Exclusion Notice(s) filed, ballot approval is rescinded and PAG to
be created.
If no Exclusion Notices filed, ballot becomes effective at end of
Review Period.
Upon filing of Review Notice by Chair
30 days after filing of Review Notice by Chair
From Bylaw 2.3: If the Draft Guideline Ballot is proposing a Final
Maintenance Guideline, such ballot will include a redline or
comparison showing the set of changes from the Final Guideline
section(s) intended to become a Final Maintenance Guideline, and need
not include a copy of the full set of guidelines. Such redline or
comparison shall be made against the Final Guideline section(s) as
they exist at the time a ballot is proposed, and need not take into
consideration other ballots that may be proposed subsequently, except
as provided in Bylaw Section 2.3(j).
Votes must be cast by posting an on-list reply to this thread on the
Public list. A vote in favor of the motion must indicate a clear
'yes' in the response. A vote against must indicate a clear 'no' in
the response. A vote to abstain must indicate a clear 'abstain' in the
response. Unclear responses will not be counted. The latest vote
received from any representative of a voting member before the close
of the voting period will be counted. Voting members are listed here:
https://cabforum.org/members/
In order for the motion to be adopted, two thirds or more of the votes
cast by members in the CA category and greater than 50% of the votes
cast by members in the browser category must be in favor. Quorum is
shown on CA/Browser Forum wiki. Under Bylaw 2.2(g), at least the
required quorum number must participate in the ballot for the ballot
to be valid, either by voting in favor, voting against, or abstaining.
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