[cabfpub] Voting has started on Ballot 193 - 825-day Certificate Lifetimes

Tue Mar 14 06:19:12 UTC 2017

On 11/3/2017 7:20 μμ, Kirk Hall via Public wrote:
>
> Voting has started on  Ballot 193 - 825-day Certificate Lifetimes 
> (shown below and attached).  Voting will end on Friday, March 17, 2017 
> at 23:00 UTC.
>

HARICA votes "yes" to ballot 193.

Dimitris.

> *********
>
> *Ballot 193 - 825-day Certificate Lifetimes (REVISED v2 – March 2, 2017)*
>
> *Purpose of Ballot:* Recent Ballot 185 demonstrated a consensus among 
> Forum members to reduce the maximum lifetime for DV and OV 
> certificates from 39 months to 825 days (roughly 27 months).  This 
> ballot reflects that consensus, and also reduces the maximum period 
> for reuse of vetting data for DV and OV certificates from 39 months to 
> 27 months.
>
> The following motion has been proposed by Chris Bailey of Entrust 
> Datacard and endorsed by the following CA/B Forum member 
> representatives (listed in alphabetical order) Robin Alden of Comodo, 
> Ben Wilson of DigiCert, and Doug Beattie of GlobalSign to introduce 
> new Final Maintenance Guidelines for the "Baseline Requirements 
> Certificate Policy for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted 
> Certificates" (Baseline Requirements) and the "Guidelines for the 
> Issuance and Management of Extended Validation Certificates" (EV 
> Guidelines).
>
> -- MOTION BEGINS --
>
> *BR 4.2.1. Performing Identification and Authentication Functions*
>
> The certificate request MAY include all factual information about the 
> Applicant to be included in the Certificate, and such additional 
> information as is necessary for the CA to obtain from the Applicant in 
> order to comply with these Requirements and the CA’s Certificate 
> Policy and/or Certification Practice Statement. In cases where the 
> certificate request does not contain all the necessary information 
> about the Applicant, the CA SHALL obtain the remaining information 
> from the Applicant or, having obtained it from a reliable, 
> independent, third‐party data source, confirm it with the Applicant. 
> The CA SHALL establish and follow a documented procedure for verifying 
> all data requested for inclusion in the Certificate by the Applicant.
>
> Applicant information MUST include, but not be limited to, at least 
> one Fully‐Qualified Domain Name or IP address to be included in the 
> Certificate’s SubjectAltName extension.
>
> Section 6.3.2 limits the validity period of Subscriber Certificates. 
> The CA MAY use the documents and data provided in Section 3.2 to 
> verify certificate information, provided that the CA obtained the data 
> or document from a source specified under Section 3.2 no more than 
> *_825 days_ */thirty‐nine (39) months/ prior to issuing the Certificate.
>
> The CA SHALL develop, maintain, and implement documented procedures 
> that identify and require additional verification activity for High 
> Risk Certificate Requests prior to the Certificate’s approval, as 
> reasonably necessary to ensure that such requests are properly 
> verified under these Requirements.
>
> If a Delegated Third Party fulfills any of the CA’s obligations under 
> this section, the CA SHALL verify that the process used by the 
> Delegated Third Party to identify and further verify High Risk 
> Certificate Requests provides at least the same level of assurance as 
> the CA’s own processes.
>
> *BR 6.3.2. Certificate Operational Periods and Key Pair Usage Periods*
>
> Subscriber Certificates issued after *_March 1, 2018 _*/the Effective 
> Date/ MUST have a Validity Period no greater than *_825 days_ */60 
> months/. *_Subscriber Certificates issued after 1 July 2016 /April 
> 2015/ but prior to 1 March 2018 MUST /NOT/ have a Validity Period no 
> greater than thirty-nine (39) months._*
>
> /Except as provided for below, Subscriber Certificates issued after 1 
> April 2015 MUST have a Validity Period no greater than 39 months./
>
> //
>
> /Until 30 June 2016, CAs MAY continue to issue Subscriber Certificates 
> with a Validity Period greater than 39 months but not greater than 60 
> months provided that the CA documents that the Certificate is for a 
> system or software that:/
>
> //
>
> /(a) was in use prior to the Effective Date;/
>
> /(b) is currently in use by either the Applicant or a substantial 
> number of Relying Parties;/
>
> /(c) fails to operate if the Validity Period is shorter than 60 months;/
>
> /(d) does not contain known security risks to Relying Parties; and/
>
> /(e) is difficult to patch or replace without substantial economic 
> outlay./
>
> **
>
> *EVGL 9.4. Maximum Validity Period For EV Certificate*
>
> The validity period for an EV Certificate SHALL NOT exceed *_825 
> days_* /twenty seven months/. It is RECOMMENDED that EV Subscriber 
> Certificates have a maximum validity period of twelve months.
>
> -- MOTION ENDS --
>
> The procedure for approval of this Final Maintenance Guideline ballot 
> is as follows (exact start and end times may be adjusted to comply 
> with applicable Bylaws and IPR Agreement):
>
> BALLOT 193
>
> Status: Final Maintenance Guideline
>
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>
> Start time (23:00 UTC)
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> End time (23:00 UTC)
>
> Discussion (7 to 14 days)
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> March 3
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> March 10
>
> Vote for approval (7 days)
>
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> March 10
>
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> March 17
>
> If vote approves ballot: Review Period (Chair to send Review Notice) 
> (30 days).
>
> If Exclusion Notice(s) filed, ballot approval is rescinded and PAG to 
> be created.
>
> If no Exclusion Notices filed, ballot becomes effective at end of 
> Review Period.
>
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>
> Upon filing of Review Notice by Chair
>
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> 30 days after filing of Review Notice by Chair
>
> From Bylaw 2.3: If the Draft Guideline Ballot is proposing a Final 
> Maintenance Guideline, such ballot will include a redline or 
> comparison showing the set of changes from the Final Guideline 
> section(s) intended to become a Final Maintenance Guideline, and need 
> not include a copy of the full set of guidelines.  Such redline or 
> comparison shall be made against the Final Guideline section(s) as 
> they exist at the time a ballot is proposed, and need not take into 
> consideration other ballots that may be proposed subsequently, except 
> as provided in Bylaw Section 2.3(j).
>
> 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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