Dear Members,
I received a few comments on GitHub which have resulted in a newer
version. I plan to leave a few more days for people to review, and on
Monday I will submit a second version of the ballot with a discussion
period of 7 days.
Thank you,
Dimitris.
On 2/6/2023 1:21 μ.μ., Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA) via Public wrote:
Purpose of the Ballot
The Forum has identified and discussed a number of improvements to be
made to the current version of the Bylaws to improve clarity and allow
the Forum to function more efficiently. Most of these changes are
described in the “Issues with Bylaws to be addressed
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EtrIy3F5cPge0_M-C8J6fe72KcVI8H5Q_2S6S31ynU0>”
document. Some preparatory discussions and reviews can be checked on
GitHub <https://github.com/cabforum/forum/pull/32>.
Here is a list of major changes:
1. Clarified that it is not always required to “READ” the antitrust
statement before each meeting and added the option of reading a
"note-well".
2. Clarified where to send/post Chartered Working Group minutes.
3. Increased the number of days before automatic failing a ballot
from 21 to 90 days.
4. Allow Chair or Vice-Chair to update links to other sections within
a document without a ballot.
5. Applied grammatical and other language improvements.
6. Clarified that Subcommittee minutes do not need to also be
published on the public web site.
7. Created a new member category called "Probationary Member",
applicable to both Certificate Issuer and Consumer categories, and
separated "Associate Members - Certificate Issuers" from the
"Associate Member" category.
8. Removed the member category called "Root CA Issuer" and only kept
the "CA Issuer" category.
9. Added a step to check the authority of the signer during
membership applications.
10. Updated the Chartered Working Group template.
11. Added some language to the Code of Conduct.
12. Updated the elections language as agreed at F2F#58.
The following motion has been proposed by Dimitris Zacharopoulos of
HARICA and endorsed by Ben Wilson of Mozilla and Paul van
Brouwershaven of Entrust.
MOTION BEGINS
*Amendment to the Bylaws:* Replace the entire text of the Bylaws of
the CA/Browser Forum with the attached version (CA-Browser Forum
Bylaws v2.5.pdf).
*NOTE:* There are two redlines produced by GitHub
1. Bylaws-redline.pdf (attached)
2. GitHub redline available at
https://github.com/cabforum/forum/pull/32/files#diff-00dc82c5c5b5a798acc5b77d0b8de6a3f87f6f5a
MOTION ENDS
The procedure for this ballot is as follows:
*Forum-18 - Update CA/B Forum Bylaws to version 2.5
* *Start time (10:00 UTC)* *End time (10:00 UTC)*
Discussion (at least 14 days) 02 June 2023 16 June 2023
Expected Vote for approval (7 days) TBD TBD
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