[cabfpub] Results of Ballot 105 and NOTICE OF IPR REVIEW PERIOD FOR BR AMENDMENTS MADE BY BALLOTS 96, 97, 99, 102 and 105

[Ben Wilson]

Voting has closed on Ballot 105 (Technical Constraints for Subordinate
Certificate Authorities).   "Yes" votes were received from Buypass, Comodo,
DigiCert, GlobalSign, KEYNECTIS, Logius PKIoverheid, Network Solutions,
QuoVadis, StartCom, Trustis, and Wells Fargo, as well as from Microsoft,
Opera and Mozilla.   Certum, Izenpe, SECOM, and Symantec abstained.  There
were no "no" votes.  Therefore the ballot passes.  Attached is a redlined
PDF and an accepted-changes PDF of version 1.1.6 of the Baseline
Requirements.  Word versions and these PDFs have been uploaded to the wiki.
The attached current version (BRv1.1.6.pdf) will be posted on the CAB Forum
web site.  

 

NOTICE OF IPR REVIEW PERIOD FOR BR AMENDMENTS MADE BY BALLOTS 96, 97, 99,
102 and 105

 

The following changes have been made to the Baseline Requirements since the
last Notice of IPR Review Period:

 

Ballot 96 amended sections 11.1.3 and 11.1.4 dealing with Wildcards and new
gTLDs.

 

Ballot 97 - Prevention of Unknown Certificate Contents - amended section
10.2.3  and Appendix B and also addressed RFC 5280.

 

Ballot 99 added an allowance for DSA keys to Appendix B

 

Ballot 102 amended section 9.2.3 concerning the use of domainComponents in
certificates.

 

Finally, the attached redlined version of the Baseline Requirements shows
the changes based on Ballot 105, which just passed.

 

Pursuant to Section 4.1 of the CA/Browser Forum's IPR Policy, this is notice
of the commencement of a 30-day IPR maintenance-guideline review period by
which certain provisions of the IPR will become applicable to the
above-mentioned changes made to the Baseline Requirements by Ballots 96, 97,
99, 102 and 105.   During this IPR review period you are to review these
amendments and consider any licensing obligations with respect to any
Essential Claims that may be encompassed by such amendments.  

 

The 30-day IPR review period for these changes shall end on 28 August 2013.

 

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