[cabfpub] Ballot 133 - Insurance Requirements for EV Issuers

Eddy Nigg eddy_nigg at startcom.org
Wed Oct 22 11:02:03 UTC 2014


On 10/22/2014 12:40 PM, Gervase Markham wrote:
> On 21/10/14 21:58, Kelvin Yiu wrote:
>> Microsoft abstains, on the reason that the ballot does not directly
>> improve the security of CA operations or benefit end users. Microsoft
>> does support simplifying CA insurance requirements in the EV guidelines
>> and will support a ballot similar to ballot 121.
> Mozilla votes No.
>
> If these insurance requirements were clearly a relaxation and a
> simplification, we might have voted Yes, on the grounds that it's a step
> towards eliminating them. But I have sufficient doubt that they actually
> are a relaxation and simplification.

In that case the ballot is effectively dead I believe...now how we go 
about reviving ballot 121 ?

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