I’d support removing the words “Certificate Policy” from the document title, if 
that is the request,  but I am fine with whatever the group decides.

 

From: Public [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rich Smith via 
Public
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2017 5:51 PM
To: 'Ryan Sleevi' <[email protected]>; 'Gervase Markham' <[email protected]>
Cc: Rich Smith <[email protected]>; 'CA/Browser Forum Public Discussion 
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Subject: Re: [cabfpub] Baseline Requirements "Certificate Policy" for the 
Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted Certificates

 

Should we put this forth as a ballot?  Anyone who might have reason that we 
should go the other way can bring it up in the discussion period.

 

From: Ryan Sleevi [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2017 9:30 AM
To: Gervase Markham <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >
Cc: Rich Smith <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >; 
CA/Browser Forum Public Discussion List <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> >
Subject: Re: [cabfpub] Baseline Requirements "Certificate Policy" for the 
Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted Certificates

 

As it stands, 
http://www.webtrust.org/principles-and-criteria/docs/item83987.pdf and 
http://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_en/319400_319499/31941102/02.01.01_60/en_31941102v020101p.pdf
 both note

 

"Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted 
Certificates"

 

That is, the pre-1.3.0 language, even though they're based on and incorporate 
post-1.3.0 versions.

 

https://cabforum.org/2015/04/16/ballot-146-convert-baseline-requirements-to-rfc-3647-framework/
 as text notes "Be it resolved that the CA / Browser Forum adopts the attached 
CA/B Forum Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of 
Publicly-Trusted Certificates, v.1.3.0, effective upon adoption."

 

On the basis of this data, and in the lack of evidence to the contrary, it 
certainly would appear that changing the title of the document to reflect its 
historic, pre-1.3.0 naming, has _less_ impact both to the BRs and consumers 
than it does to suggest changing Section 2.2.

 

Of course, if others are aware of evidence to the contrary, this would be 
useful to provide. But this is why I was highlighting that whether or not 
external documents were updated to refer to the 'new' language (in which case, 
changing 2.2 is the path of least resistance) or 'old' language (as, it turns 
out, they are), can affect the cost evaluation of the different proposals.

 

Hopefully that's at least an objective reason to "change the title back to what 
it was" :)

 

 

On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 9:39 AM, Gervase Markham <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:

On 21/06/17 15:36, Rich Smith wrote:
> If I’m not mistaken, Gerv is saying, rather than update a bunch of text
> in other places, how about changing the name back to /Baseline
> Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted
> Certificates/.
>
> Gerv, if that is correct, I second the motion.

That was my suggestion. 2 caveats, though: Ryan pointed out offlist that
the name may be referenced elsewhere, and so it might be more work to
change to something new than to standardize on what the cover page
currently says. And also, presumably we added the words "Certificate
Policy" to the name for a reason; we shouldn't remove them without
knowing what that reason was.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence

Gerv

 

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