[cabfpub] Ballot 205: Membership-Related Clarifications

Tue Jul 4 10:39:02 MST 2017

HARICA votes "yes" to ballot 205.

Dimitris.

On 22/6/2017 2:42 μμ, Gervase Markham via Public wrote:
> *Ballot 205: Membership-Related Clarifications
> *
>
> *Purpose of Ballot: *The CAB Forum Bylaws define membership criteria, 
> but don't say what should happen when an existing member ceases to 
> meet those criteria. This ballot is intended to fix this, for the 
> avoidance of doubt and uncertainty. It also makes it clearer that 
> proper recognition of currently-issued certificates by at least one 
> browser member is a membership requirement, and adds the definition of 
> "Affiliate" from the IPR policy.
>
> The following motion has been proposed by Gervase Markham of Mozilla 
> and endorsed by Kirk Hall of Entrust Datacard and Curt Spann of Apple:
>
> -- MOTION BEGINS --
>
> This motion changes the CAB Forum Bylaws.
>
> ___*Section 1*__*
> *_
> Add a new section between 2.1 ("Qualifying for Forum Membership") and 
> the following section, numbering the new section 2.2, and renumbering 
> following sections appropriately. The new section shall read:
>
> *2.2 Ending Forum Membership*
>
> Forum Members may resign from the Forum at any time. Resignation does 
> not prevent a member potentially having continuing obligations, under 
> the Forum's IPR Policy or any other document.
>
> (a) _Browser_: A Browser member's membership will automatically cease 
> if any of the following become true:
>
>  1. it stops providing updates for its membership-qualifying software
>     product; or
>  2. six months have elapsed since the last such published update.
>
> (b) _Issuing CA_ or _Root CA_: An CA member's membership may be 
> suspended if any of the following become true:
>
>  1. it fails to pass its membership-qualifying audit;
>  2. its membership-qualifying audit is revoked, rescinded or withdrawn;
>  3. fifteen months have elapsed since the end of the Audit Period of
>     its last successful membership-qualifying audit;
>  4. it stops issuing certificates to Web servers that are openly
>     accessible from the Internet; or
>  5. it is no longer the case that its currently-issued certificates
>     are treated as valid by at least one Browser member.
>
> Any Forum Member who believes one of the above circumstances is true 
> of a CA Forum Member may report it on the Public Mail List. The Chair 
> will then investigate, including asking the CA for an explanation or 
> appropriate documentation. If evidence of continued qualification for 
> membership is not forthcoming within five working days, the Chair will 
> announce that the member is suspended, such announcement to include 
> the clause(s) from the above list under which the suspension has been 
> made.
>
> A suspended CA Forum Member who believes it has now re-met the 
> membership criteria under the relevant clauses shall post evidence to 
> the Public Mail List. The Chair will examine the evidence and 
> unsuspend the member, or not, by public announcement. A CA Forum 
> Member's membership will automatically cease six months after it 
> becomes suspended if it has not re-met the membership criteria by that 
> time.
>
> While suspended, CAs may participate in meetings and on the Forum's 
> discussion lists, but not propose or second ballots or take part in 
> any form of voting. Votes cast before a member's suspension is 
> announced will stand.
>
> _*Section 2*__*
> *_
> Update both sections 2.1 (a) and (b) to insert words as follows:
>
> "actively issues certificates to Web servers that are openly 
> accessible from the Internet_, __such certificates being treated as 
> valid when_ using a browser created by a Browser member."
>
> _*Section 3*__*
>
> *_Update section 2.2 b) as follows:
>
> Only one vote per Member company shall be accepted; representatives of 
> corporate affiliates_Affiliates_ shall not vote.
>
> Add to the Definitions section:
>
> *Affiliate:* an entity that directly or indirectly controls, is 
> controlled by or is under common control with, a Member. Control for 
> the purposes of this Agreement shall mean direct or indirect 
> beneficial ownership of more than fifty percent of the voting stock, 
> or decision-making authority in the event that there is no voting 
> stock, in an entity.
>
> -- MOTION ENDS --
>
> The procedure for approval of this ballot is as follows:
>
> BALLOT 205
>
> Status: Bylaws Change
>
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> Start time (23:00 UTC)
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> End time (23:00 UTC)
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> Discussion (7 to 14 days)
>
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> 22 June
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> 29 June
>
> Vote for approval (7 days)
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> 29 June
>
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> 6 July
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>
> Votes must be cast by posting an on-list reply to this thread on the 
> Public list.  A vote in favor of the motion must indicate a clear 
> 'yes' in the response. A vote against must indicate a clear 'no' in 
> the response. A vote to abstain must indicate a clear 'abstain' in the 
> response. Unclear responses will not be counted. The latest vote 
> received from any representative of a voting member before the close 
> of the voting period will be counted. Voting members are listed here: 
> https://cabforum.org/members/In order for the motion to be adopted, 
> two thirds or more of the votes cast by members in the CA category and 
> greater than 50% of the votes cast by members in the browser category 
> must be in favor. Quorum is shown on CA/Browser Forum wiki.  Under 
> Bylaw 2.2(g), at least the required quorum number must participate in 
> the ballot for the ballot to be valid, either by voting in favor, 
> voting against, or abstaining.
>
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