[Servercert-wg] Ballot SC42: 398-day Reuse Period

[Ben Wilson]

This email begins the public discussion period of Ballot SC42: 398-day
Reuse Period. Pursuant to section 2.3 of the Bylaws, "The discussion period
then shall take place for at least seven (7) calendar days before votes are
cast. At any time, a new version of the ballot (marked with a
distinguishing version number) may be posted by the proposer in the same
manner as the original. Once no new version of the ballot has been posted
for seven (7) calendar days, the proposer may end the discussion period and
start the voting period by reposting the final version of the ballot and
clearly indicating that voting is to begin, along with the start and end
dates and times (including time zone) for the voting period."

*Type of Ballot:*

 This is a ballot to adopt two Final Maintenance Guidelines which modify
the Forum's Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of
Publicly-Trusted Certificates (BRs) and the Guidelines for the Issuance and
Management of Extended Validation Certificates (EVGs).

*Purpose of Ballot:*

This ballot changes validation reuse periods for FQDN and IP Address
validation to 398 days in section 4.2.1 of the BRs and for all purposes in
section 11.14.3 of the EVGs. The ballot does not change the 825-day reuse
period in section 4.2.1. of the BRs for Organizational Validation (OV)
information.

*Specifically:*

* It inserts as the last sentence in the third paragraph of BR section
4.2.1, "Effective 2021-10-01, the CA SHALL verify Domain Names and IP
Addresses no more than 398 days prior to Certificate issuance."

* It replaces eight instances of "thirteen months" or "thirteen-month" in
EVG section 11.14.3 with 398 days.

The following motion has been proposed by Ben Wilson of Mozilla and
endorsed by Dimitris Zacharopoulos of HARICA and Chema Lopez of
Firmaprofesional.

* – MOTION BEGINS –*

This ballot modifies the “Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and
Management of Publicly-Trusted Certificates” (“BRs”), based on Version
1.7.3:

Insert as the last sentence in the third paragraph of section 4.2.1 of the
BRs, "Effective 2021-10-01, the CA SHALL verify Domain Names and IP
Addresses no more than 398 days prior to Certificate issuance." as
illustrated in the attached redlined PDF document and in the following
redline:
https://github.com/sleevi/cabforum-docs/compare/2020-11-30_Pandocification...BenWilson-Mozilla:398-day-FQDN-validation

This ballot modifies the “Guidelines for the Issuance and Management of
Extended Validation Certificates” (“EVGs”) as follows, based on Version
1.7.4:

REPLACE all eight instances of "thirteen months" (or "thirteen-month") in
section 11.14.3 of the EVGs with 398 days and 398-day, respectively, as
illustrated in the attached redlined PDF and in the following redline:
https://github.com/sleevi/cabforum-docs/compare/2020-11-30_Pandocification...BenWilson-Mozilla:398-day-FQDN-validation

* – MOTION ENDS –*

This ballot proposes two Final Maintenance Guidelines.

The procedure for approval of this ballot is as follows:

Discussion (7+ days)

Start Time: 2021-03-29 21:00:00 UTC

End Time: TBD

Vote for approval (7 days)

Start Time: TBD

End Time: TBD
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