Re: Governing EV

2008-04-27 Thread Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.)
Frank Hecker: I agree with your general point, namely that we should start doing better tracking of audit dates, particularly for EV audits. However I don't know at this point what would be appropriate in terms of setting timeframes for when an audit would be considered to be out of date.

Re: Governing EV

2008-04-27 Thread Frank Hecker
Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.) wrote: Frank Hecker: I agree with your general point, namely that we should start doing better tracking of audit dates, particularly for EV audits. However I don't know at this point what would be appropriate in terms of setting timeframes for when an audit would

Re: Governing EV

2008-04-27 Thread Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.)
Frank Hecker: The problem is that while the EV guidelines contain an explicit requirement for annual audits, they don't dictate things like the length of the grace period that browser vendors should give CAs once their audits expire. In fact, it's not even clear from the EV guidelines

Re: Governing EV

2008-04-27 Thread Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.)
Nelson B Bolyard: Those criteria are independent of the browser or application that uses them. There isn't a Mozilla EV criteria and a separate IE EV criteria and Opera EV criteria. Correct, however it's the browsers which must govern the re-auditing. Actually this is the *ONLY* thing