[cabfpub] Application for SHA-1 Issuance

Gervase Markham gerv at mozilla.org
Mon Jul 18 14:21:22 UTC 2016


On 18/07/16 15:18, Dean Coclin wrote:
> As you know, the procedure proposed by Google was discussed in Bilbao end of 
> May and was released in draft form on June 3rd. Then there was quite a bit of 
> discussion followed by a meeting (call) attended by industry representatives 
> on June 23rd (the minutes of which were not publicized until July 7th). While 
> it was hoped that Google would adjust the procedure, it was clear after that 
> meeting that no further adjustments would be made. Representatives of the 
> company began writing up their application which needed to be approved by 
> several layers in their organization. As you can imagine, it took time to get 
> all the approvals. Lastly, we had to do the key ceremony which as everyone now 
> knows, didn't go so well the first time. So yes, we could have sent it a few 
> days earlier but not months earlier.

OK, fair enough. Thank you :-)

Gerv




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