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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Tim Hollebeek <br>
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<b>To:</b> Virginia Fournier <vfournier@apple.com>; CA/Browser Forum Governance WG List <govreform@cabforum.org>; Dean Coclin <dean.coclin@digicert.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [cabf_governance] Siemens participation in CA/Browser Forum<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">IIRC Siemens is using QuoVadis sub-CA, but someone should double-check that.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Virginia Fournier via Govreform<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, April 27, 2018 5:59 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [cabf_governance] Siemens participation in CA/Browser Forum<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Good question. The Siemens guys said they had been participating through QuoVadis, so I thought it was an affiliate. But it looks like maybe QuoVadis is a CA that Siemens uses? We should just take that sentence out.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Govreform [<a href="mailto:govreform-bounces@cabforum.org">mailto:govreform-bounces@cabforum.org</a>]<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Virginia
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<b>Subject:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [cabf_governance] Siemens participation in CA/Browser Forum<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">We can certainly appreciate the challenges that Forum participants have with respect to their patent portfolios. Many current Forum participants have this challenge, and have still agreed to comply with the
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:vfournier@apple.com"><span style="color:purple">vfournier@apple.com</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>[<a href="mailto:vfournier@apple.com"><span style="color:purple">mailto:vfournier@apple.com</span></a>]<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
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<b>Subject:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>[EXTERNAL]Re: [cabf_governance] Siemens participation in CA/Browser Forum<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>Sent:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Tuesday, April 24, 2018 6:42 AM<br>
<b>To:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Kirk Hall <<a href="mailto:Kirk.Hall@entrustdatacard.com"><span style="color:purple">Kirk.Hall@entrustdatacard.com</span></a>>; CA/Browser Forum Governance WG List <<a href="mailto:govreform@cabforum.org"><span style="color:purple">govreform@cabforum.org</span></a>>;<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:vfournier@apple.com"><span style="color:purple">vfournier@apple.com</span></a><br>
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<b>Sent:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Monday, April 23, 2018 8:16 PM<br>
<b>To:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:vfournier@apple.com"><span style="color:purple">vfournier@apple.com</span></a>; CA/Browser Forum Governance WG List <<a href="mailto:govreform@cabforum.org"><span style="color:purple">govreform@cabforum.org</span></a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [cabf_governance] FW: Siemens participation in CA/Browser Forum<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>Sent:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Monday, April 23, 2018 11:38 AM<br>
<b>To:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>'Wichmann, Markus Peter' <<a href="mailto:markus.wichmann@siemens.com"><span style="color:#954F72">markus.wichmann@siemens.com</span></a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Buschart, Rufus <<a href="mailto:rufus.buschart@siemens.com"><span style="color:#954F72">rufus.buschart@siemens.com</span></a>>; Grotz, Florian <<a href="mailto:florian.grotz@siemens.com"><span style="color:#954F72">florian.grotz@siemens.com</span></a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>RE: Siemens participation in CA/Browser Forum<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Wichmann, Markus Peter [<a href="mailto:markus.wichmann@siemens.com"><span style="color:#954F72">mailto:markus.wichmann@siemens.com</span></a>]<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
<b>Sent:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Monday, April 9, 2018 1:17 PM<br>
<b>To:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Kirk Hall <<a href="mailto:Kirk.Hall@entrustdatacard.com"><span style="color:#954F72">Kirk.Hall@entrustdatacard.com</span></a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Buschart, Rufus <<a href="mailto:rufus.buschart@siemens.com"><span style="color:#954F72">rufus.buschart@siemens.com</span></a>>; Grotz, Florian <<a href="mailto:florian.grotz@siemens.com"><span style="color:#954F72">florian.grotz@siemens.com</span></a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>[EXTERNAL]AW: Siemens participation in CA/Browser Forum<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>Gesendet:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Mittwoch, 4. April 2018 10:18<br>
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<b>Gesendet:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Mittwoch, 4. April 2018 02:21<br>
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<b>Cc:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Wichmann, Markus Peter (GS IT ISEC TE DI IS); Grotz, Florian (GS IT HR 7 4)<br>
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to avoid IP conflicts when adopting “best practices” in CA/Browser Forum document (which eventually become the equivalent of standards or requirements once the browsers adopt them as trusted root program requirements for being included in their browsers, and
also become WebTrust / ETSI audit standards). Their biggest stated concern was that a CABF member could participate in drafting a CABF guideline while secretly knowing it had a patent on the process. After the browsers made the guideline a program requirement
for all CAs, the member could then surprise everyone and demand an IP license with royalties. A drafting committee of IP lawyers (again dominated by the browsers) turned to models like the IP agreement of W3C, etc. as a template for the CABF IPR Agreement.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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whole Forum to discuss this – they would likely turn to their IP lawyers instead, and the IP lawyers often are hard to schedule. In addition, and changes would have to preserve the current objective of our IPR Agreement, which is essentially to force parties
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good reasons for making the changes. Also, it would be very helpful to Siemens’ case if you can point out other ISO standards organizations that already use the IP approach you are suggesting – so you can reassure the Forum members that this is already done
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<b>Sent:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Tuesday, April 3, 2018 10:47 AM<br>
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<b>Cc:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Wichmann, Markus Peter <<a href="mailto:markus.wichmann@siemens.com"><span style="color:#954F72">markus.wichmann@siemens.com</span></a>>; Grotz, Florian <<a href="mailto:florian.grotz@siemens.com"><span style="color:#954F72">florian.grotz@siemens.com</span></a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>[EXTERNAL]RE: Siemens participation in CA/Browser Forum<o:p></o:p></p>
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take a very long time and will cost a lot of money – so we can’t really do this. But would you be willing to discuss with our legal department changes in the IPR-form so that it would be possible for us to join? Otherwise I would like to propose that we continue
to contribute through GitHub (<a href="https://clicktime.symantec.com/a/1/_rfGSlZFieSrQ5NleNRUJ2Un7TkQQYLQqSYepLTy2EQ=?d=Pf0YALX0BOsqq1IWKsBJ__jd4yw2FZuXXN0-ZkWowX5GYPzmlvBHFJkLBZAi7nGAzh8XOqRzr_NnEmdsLV6EeRC9_smsL53xpGPYWhuUT-TsNFM_wl5Lj2okJMAqyxj8sWNDL6dJXsEuQj1swDXA0_R1wZihrveNCZPoHjjQV498t-bk_TtlwR_TieBCo27E5HcGVbdkGuC8U3xIvg6nbtKmFbuijkN-cJbOp4OcPVzXsJ2m8KDwNuiAgWUPECEA33-lJH2ZdSwcbJ9iSyBmHnTeXSqYh7XpBnjhxZGvsu3bAItsIxfzM3Tx_2B_67yNj1gKwSLBNeAOrT3DZoYXSTBspqWzQY8-IMTwiyDbQHlEltPgz7eDU9L_WdvlQpZW2II6ewptfS2G5lLSG7cKRCi1lb0YYJoy8D5SJeDbPLf00G6bNe7ONtD_N6HoK3cLCshxAwRhC08jwYI%3D&u=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fcabforum%2Fdocuments%2Fissues"><span style="color:#954F72">https://github.com/cabforum/documents/issues</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>)
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<b>Sent:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Mittwoch, 17. Januar 2018 23:15<br>
<b>To:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Buschart, Rufus (GS IT HR 7 4)<br>
<b>Cc:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Wichmann, Markus Peter (GS IT ISEC TE DI IS); Grotz, Florian (GS IT HR 7 4)<br>
<b>Subject:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>RE: Siemens participation in CA/Browser Forum</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">In theory, Siemens shouldn’t be participating in working group lists right now because of IP issues – that’s why we require Interested Parties to sign the IPR Agreement first. See attached. We would welcome
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Buschart, Rufus [<a href="mailto:rufus.buschart@siemens.com"><span style="color:#954F72">mailto:rufus.buschart@siemens.com</span></a>]<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
<b>Sent:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Wednesday, January 17, 2018 10:41 AM<br>
<b>To:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Kirk Hall <<a href="mailto:Kirk.Hall@entrustdatacard.com"><span style="color:#954F72">Kirk.Hall@entrustdatacard.com</span></a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Wichmann, Markus Peter <<a href="mailto:markus.wichmann@siemens.com"><span style="color:#954F72">markus.wichmann@siemens.com</span></a>>; Grotz, Florian <<a href="mailto:florian.grotz@siemens.com"><span style="color:#954F72">florian.grotz@siemens.com</span></a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>[EXTERNAL]RE: Siemens participation in CA/Browser Forum<o:p></o:p></p>
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idea, that we could become an official interested party under CA/B forums Bylaws, but I have to discuss this with my Policy Management Authority.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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Information Technology<br>
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Hugo-Junkers-Str.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="DE" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">9<br>
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Tel.: +49 1522 2894134<br>
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<b>Sent:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Mittwoch, 17. Januar 2018 19:10<br>
<b>To:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Buschart, Rufus (GS IT HR 7 4)<br>
<b>Subject:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Siemens participation in CA/Browser Forum</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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