Interesting idea, Wayne – we already have a process in the EV Guidelines for 
doing Face-to-Face Validation for individuals at EVGL 11.2.2(4)(A), but it’s 
not required in all cases.  Maybe this is as simple as adding that as a 
requirement in all cases for EV certs.

From: Wayne Thayer [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 9:44 AM
To: Ryan Sleevi <[email protected]>; CA/Browser Forum Public Discussion List 
<[email protected]>
Cc: Kirk Hall <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [cabfpub] [EXTERNAL]Re: Obtaining an EV cert for phishing

The EV process is intended to gather a robust body of information about the 
Subject that, when viewed collectively, "provides users with a trustworthy 
confirmation of the identity of the entity". James and later Ryan have pointed 
out a weakness in the standard where incorrect data from a single data source 
(QGIS) could be used to obtain a "properly validated" EV certificate containing 
that incorrect data.

A positive outcome from this discussion would be for the Validation WG to 
review this information and propose changes to the EVGLs (such as a requirement 
for face-to-face validation mentioned by Jeremy) that mitigate this weakness.

Wayne
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