OATI votes Yes to Ballot 199 as written below.

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Subject: [cabfpub] Ballot 199 - Require commonName in Root and Intermediate 
Certificates

This is the corrected text (one word change) of ballot 199 which is currently 
in the voting period (voting ends on 9th May).

Ballot 199 - Require commonName in Root and Intermediate Certificates
Purpose of Ballot: Section 7.1.4.3 of the BRs, which deals with Subject 
Information for Subordinate CA Certificates, currently requires only that all 
information in a Subordinate CA Certificate is accurate; it does not say what 
information is required. Some of the necessary information is required 
elsewhere in the BRs, but it is not complete - commonName is missing. If 
commonName is omitted, DN clashes can more easily occur. So this motion 
centralises that information in the obvious place, and adds a commonName 
requirement.
The following motion has been proposed by Gervase Markham of Mozilla and 
endorsed by Patrick Tronnier of OATI and Ryan Sleevi of Google:


-- MOTION BEGINS --

Make the following changes to the Baseline Requirements:

* Delete 7.1.2.1 (e), which currently defines the Subject Information required 
in a Root CA Certificate.



* Delete 7.1.2.2 (h), which currently defines the Subject Information required 
in a Subordinate CA Certificate.



* Rename section 7.1.4.2, currently titled "Subject Information", to "Subject 
Information - Subscriber Certificates".



* Rename section 7.1.4.3, currently titled "Subject Information - Subordinate 
CA Certificates" to "Subject Information - Root Certificates and Subordinate CA 
Certificates".



* Based on the style used in 7.1.4.2.2 and the content from the now-deleted 
7.1.2.1 (e) and 7.1.2.2 (h), add the following section 7.1.4.3.1:



7.1.4.3.1 Subject Distinguished Name Fields



Certificate Field: subject:commonName (OID 2.5.4.3)

Required/Optional: Required

Contents: This field MUST be present and the contents SHOULD be an identifier

for the certificate such that the certificate's Name is unique across all

certificates issued by the issuing certificate.



b. Certificate Field: subject:organizationName (OID 2.5.4.10)

Required/Optional: Required

Contents: This field MUST be present and the contents MUST contain

either the Subject CA’s name or DBA as verified under Section 3.2.2.2.

The CA may include information in this field that differs slightly from

the verified name, such as common variations or abbreviations,  provided

that the CA documents the difference and any abbreviations used are

locally accepted abbreviations; e.g., if the official record shows

“Company Name Incorporated”, the CA MAY use “Company Name Inc.” or

“Company Name”.



c. Certificate Field: subject:countryName (OID: 2.5.4.6)

Required/Optional: Required

Contents: This field MUST contain the two‐letter ISO 3166‐1 country code

for the country in which the CA’s place of business is located.
-- 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 199

Status: Final Maintenance Guideline


Start time (23:00 UTC)


End time (23:00 UTC)


Discussion (7 to 14 days)


25 Apr

2 May


Vote for approval (7 days)

2 May

9 May


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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Cordiali saluti,

Adriano Santoni
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