[cabfpub] Ballot 185 - Limiting the Lifetime of Certificates

Ryan Sleevi sleevi at google.com
Mon Feb 13 19:36:22 UTC 2017


I'm sorry, I'm not sure I understand the nature or purpose of your
question, so I'm not sure how to effectively answer it.

On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 11:34 AM, Scott Rea <scott at scottrea.com> wrote:

> G'day Ryan,
>
> I think I must have missed the "general agreement" posts on the list.
> Minor changes are the discretion of ballot producers and endorsers, did
> this "general agreement" you are referring to happen off list? Who was
> involved in the "general agreement" process?
>
> Regards,
> -Scott
>
> On 2/13/2017 11:05 AM, Ryan Sleevi via Public wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 11:14 AM, Dean Coclin via Public
> > <public at cabforum.org <mailto:public at cabforum.org>> wrote:
> >
> >     Minor changes to ballots have traditionally been allowed in the
> >     forum. "Minor" has been left to the discretion of the ballot
> >     producer/endorsers but we've seldom seen controversy over that.
> >
> >
> > It seems that there's general agreement that postponing the effective
> > date represents a 'minor' change, for purposes of Ballot formation, and
> > does not require restarting the discussion and/or voting periods. To
> > that end, I will repost to the public list a revised form which takes
> > into Gerv's remarks about what an appropriate _Baseline_ requirement is.
> > Recognizing that such proposals are inherently a baseline, rather than
> > best practice, and recognizing that different browsers / root stores may
> > have more stringent security requirements, it doesn't undermine the
> > Ballot to acknowledge that, but neither should it be seen as an
> > endorsement that this is the 'best practice' timeframe for deployment.
> >
> >
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