[Servercert-wg] Ballot SC-75 - Pre-sign linting

Mon May 20 17:56:24 UTC 2024

  SC-75 Pre-sign linting

    Summary

There have been numerous compliance incidents publicly disclosed by CAs 
in which they failed to comply with the technical requirements described 
in standards associated with the issuance and management of 
publicly-trusted TLS Certificates. However, the industry has developed 
open-source tools, linters, that are free to use and can help CAs avoid 
certificate misissuance. Using such linters before issuing a 
precertificate from a Publicly-Trusted CA (pre-issuance linting) can 
prevent the mis-issuance in a wide variety of cases.

The following motion has been proposed by Dimitris Zacharopoulos of 
HARICA and endorsed by Corey Bonnell of Digicert and Ben Wilson of Mozilla.

You can view the GitHub pull request representing this ballot here 
<https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/pull/518>.

    Motion Begins

MODIFY the "Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of 
Publicly-Trusted TLS Server Certificates" based on Version 2.0.4 as 
specified in the following redline:

  * https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/049237e096650fe01f67780b7c24bd5211ee3038...ada5d6e0db76b32be28d64edd7b0677bbef9c2f5

    Motion Ends

This ballot proposes a Final Maintenance Guideline. The procedure for 
approval of this ballot is as follows:

        Discussion (at least 7 days)

  * Start time: 2024-05-20 18:00:00 UTC
  * End time: on or after 2024-05-27 18:00:00 UTC

        Vote for approval (7 days)

  * Start time: TBD
  * End time: TBD

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