I would like to participate as an interested party.  I have already signed the 
IPR agreement.

Russ


> On Mar 12, 2019, at 12:46 PM, Dean Coclin via Public <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> In accordance with the CA/B Forum Bylaws and the Charter of said working 
> group, the Interim Chair announces a call for Participants interested in 
> joining the Code Signing Working Group.
>  
> Current CA/B Forum members should submit their names and company 
> affiliations, as a formal declaration of their intent (or provide them at the 
> face to face meeting).
>  
> Interested Parties are eligible to participate once they provide the signed 
> IPR agreement to the Chair.
>  
> Here is the text from the ballot relevant to membership:
>  
> The CSCWG SHALL consist of two classes of voting members, Certificate Issuers 
> and Certificate Consumers meeting the eligibility criteria below:
>  
> (1)      A Certificate Issuer eligible for voting membership in the CSCWG 
> MUST have a publicly-available audit report or attestation statement in 
> accordance with one of the following schemes:
>  
> *            WebTrust for CAs v.2.0 or newer; or 
> *            ETSI EN 319 411-1, which includes normative references to ETSI 
> EN 319 401 (the latest version of the referenced ETSI documents should be 
> applied); or
> *            If a Government Certificate Issuer is required by its 
> Certificate Policy to use a different internal audit scheme, it MAY use such 
> scheme provided that the audit either (a) encompasses all requirements of one 
> of the above schemes or (b) consists of comparable criteria that are 
> available for public review.
>  
> These audit reports must also meet the following requirements:
>  
> *            They must report on the operational effectiveness of controls 
> for a historic period of at least 60 days;
> *            No more than 27 months have elapsed since the beginning of the 
> reported-on period and no more than 15 months since the end of the 
> reported-on period; and
> *            The audit report was prepared by a Qualified Auditor. 
>  
> In addition, the Certificate Issuer MUST actively issue code signing 
> certificates that are accepted for use in computing platforms in which the 
> platform supplier accepts code signing certificates issued by such 
> Certificate Issuer. 
>  
>  
> (2)    A Certificate Consumer (i.e. a platform supplier) eligible for voting 
> membership in the CSCWG must produce a computing platform that accepts code 
> signing certificates issued by third-party Certificate Issuers who meet 
> criteria set by such Certificate Consumer.
>  
>  
> 4.2.2         Membership Application/Declaration process
>  
> A.           An Applicant not already a member of the Forum SHALL provide the 
> following information: 
>  
> *            Confirmation that the applicant satisfies at least one (1) of 
> the membership eligibility criteria (and if it satisfies more than one (1), 
> indication of the single category under which the applicant wishes to apply).
> *            The organization name, as they wish it to appear on the Forum 
> Web site and in official Forum documents.
> *            URL of the applicant's main Web site.
> *            Names and email addresses of employees who will participate in 
> the Working Group and Forum as Member representatives.
> *            Emergency contact information for security issues related to 
> certificate trust.
>  
> Applicants that qualify as Certificate Issuers or Root Certificate Issuers 
> must supply the following additional information:
>  
> *            URL of the current qualifying audit report.
> *            The URL of at least one third party website that includes a 
> certificate issued by the Applicant in the certificate chain.
> *            Links or references to issued end-entity certificates that 
> demonstrate them being treated as valid by a Certificate Consumer Member.
>  
> Such Applicant SHALL become a Member once the CSCWG has determined by 
> consensus among the Members during a CSCWG Meeting or Teleconference that the 
> Applicant meets all of the requirements above or, upon the request of any 
> Member of the CSCWG, by a Ballot among Members of the CSCWG. Acceptance by 
> consensus shall be determined or a Ballot of the Members shall be held as 
> soon as the Applicant indicates that it has presented all information 
> required above and has responded to all follow-up questions from the CSCWG 
> and the Member has complied with the requirements of Bylaw 5.5.
>  
> Certificate Issuer applicants that are not actively issuing code signing 
> certificates but otherwise meet these membership criteria MAY request to the 
> CSCWG that they be granted an invitation for Associate Member status in 
> accordance with Bylaw 3.1, subject to conditions designated by the CSCWG.
>  
> The CSCWG SHALL allow participation by Interested Parties, as set forth in 
> the Bylaws.
>  
>  
> An initial organizational meeting will take place during this week’s face to 
> face meeting followed by the formal kickoff later in the week (see agenda for 
> details).
>  
> Dean Coclin
> CA/B Forum Vice Chair
>  
>  
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