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Date: Thursday, September 5, 2019 at 12:01 PM
To: CA/B Forum Public List <[email protected]>
Subject: [cabfpub] Final Minutes for CA/Browser Forum Teleconference - August 
22, 2019

 


These are the Final Minutes of the Teleconference described in the subject of 
this message.
Attendees (in alphabetical order)
Arno Fiedler (D-TRUST), Ben Wilson (Digicert), Daniela Hood (GoDaddy), Dean 
Coclin (Digicert), Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA), Doug Beattie (GlobalSign), 
Dustin Hollenback (Microsoft), Gordon Bock (Microsoft), Inaba Atsushi 
(GlobalSign), Janet Hines (SecureTrust), Joanna Fox (GoDaddy), Kenneth Myers 
(US Federal PKI Management Authority), Li-Chun Chen (Chunghwa Telecom), 
Michelle Coon (OATI), Mike Reilly (Microsoft), Neil Dunbar (TrustCor Systems), 
Peter Miskovic (Disig), Rich Smith (Sectigo), Robin Alden (Sectigo), Ryan 
Sleevi (Google), Shelley Brewer (Digicert), Tim Callan (Sectigo), Tim Hollebeek 
(Digicert), Tim Shirley (SecureTrust), Timo Schmitt (SwissSign), Tobias 
Josefowitz (Opera Software AS), Trevoli Ponds-White (Amazon), Wayne Thayer 
(Mozilla). 
Minutes 
1. Roll Call
The Chair took attendance.
2. Read Antitrust Statement
The Antitrust Statement was read. 
3. Review Agenda
No changes to the agenda.
4. Approval of minutes from previous teleconference
The minutes from the previous teleconference were approved and will be 
circulated to the public list.
5. Forum Infrastructure Working Group update
No update.
6. Code Signing Working Group update 
Dean mentioned that the Final Guideline will be posted on the public web site 
and will ask the CA Security Council to update its link. The WG discussed about 
creating a separate timestamping document and whether the CSCWG should be 
re-chartered to include a timestamping certificates, associated with the 
id-kp-timeStamping EKU, in scope. Dean will discuss with Bruce to figure out 
what the plans are. 

Ben talked about the need to recharter to make things as clean as possible. The 
existing guideline describes timestamping issues and if the WG was to make any 
edits to those parts, it should probably be better to re-Charter to 
specifically include the EKU of time stamping, as it relates to code signing 
and not necessarily try to create a separate time stamping working group. So, 
this would be like a first step and then if it was necessary, a separate time 
stamping working group could be chartered.

Arno mentioned that Europe and European CAs are issuing qualified timestamps 
for almost 15 years and there are well defined standards, policies by ETSI 
about timestamps. 

Ryan also mentioned that this was discussed at the last F2F and more 
specifically during the S/MIME working group session where re-chartering was 
one of the topics. Google is not supportive of the Code Signing Working Group 
taking actions on time stamping. He noted that Time-stamping is not a 
code-signing issue but a broader problem which needs to be separate from 
code-signing. He also restated Arno's comment about the European experience for 
15 years and the fact that timestamps are actively being used along with 
document signing and archiving. There is no specific EKU for time stamping in 
relation only to code signing. The suggestion was to create a different Working 
Group with a separate Charter. 

Dean also added that the Working Group is preparing an information sharing 
sheet, know who to contact, when to contact for code signing issues, malware 
etc.

Gordon asked if the solution to time stamping was the formation of a new 
Working Group and Dean replied that there are a couple of options to consider, 
one being that the WG doesn't "touch" what's in the current document and leave 
it the way it is.

Ryan also asked whether the WG adopted a document that provides guidance for 
time stamping that is outside the charter. Dean responded that the WG just 
adopted a document that already existed. He would take this discussion back to 
the WG to revisit.
7. Follow-up on new S/MIME WG Charter

No update.
8. Any Other Business
Mike asked if Members would be interested to explore about updating the name 
"CA/Browser Forum" for the larger Forum especially since we have already added 
Code Signing Working Group, will add S/MIME and even Time Stamping Working 
Group.

Tim H was curious about a proposed name. Would be supportive of changing it. 
Dean mentioned that we have distinguished Certificate Consumers for each 
Working Group but if there are particular proposals that could better represent 
the whole Forum, we should discuss further.

Ryan added that the term Application Software Suppliers could be resurrected.

Arno and Dimitris considered the CA/B Forum a good marketing name which is 
widely recognizable. The "brand" name is a very important asset.

Dimitris added a topic for resurrecting the governance subcommittee as it was 
discussed at the last F2F. He reminded participants that he sent an e-mail to 
the management list a few weeks back and asked if there is interest in pursuing 
that. If not, Members would have to individually tackle some of the bylaws 
changes proposals and present them to the Forum.

Ryan mentioned that SubCommittees need to be formed via ballot so he repeated 
his proposal at the F2F meeting which was to distinguish the most pressing 
matters for governance and create a ballot. The question is whether we need a 
Forum subcommittee to work on those issues or if we should continue to discuss 
at the Forum's plenary list. Ryan proposed we start discussing some of these 
issues on the Forum public list and see if we can make progress on priorities. 
Members can also have calls between themselves, if they need to discuss issues 
real time, without requiring the creation of a Subcommittee. This would help 
validate whether we should establish a Subcommittee and whether regular calls 
would be beneficial. One of the popular topics lately is the document version 
control, flexibility for the Chair or vice-Chair to make non-normative edits to 
the Final Guidelines, Forum Members and representatives where practically every 
Company representative has the full privileges for voting, participating, 
posting, etc. These are important issues that should be discussed and resolved. 
We have had governance discussions during the regular plenary forum 
teleconference in the past so we could try to continue and see where this leads 
to.

Dimitris agreed to that approach but also mentioned that the Google document 
with open issues has listed about 11 issues to be addressed so we need to 
prioritize. He will send a new message to the list to get some more feedback.

Dean reminded Members that plan to attend F2F 48 and 49 to signup and update 
the participant tables on the wiki so that the hosts can plan ahead.
9. Next call
September 5, 2019 at 11:00 am Eastern Time. 
Adjourned
F2F Meeting Schedule: 
2019: November 5-7– Guangzhou (GDCA)
2020: Feb 18-20 Bratislava (Disig), June – Minneapolis (OATI), October – Tokyo 
(GlobalSign)
2021: Feb-March Dubai (DarkMatter), June – Poland (Asseco-Certum), October 
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