<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">The voting period for Ballot <span class="gmail-m_-6721936979793530732gmail-m_-771732846071202443gmail-il">SC7</span> has ended and the <b>Ballot has Passed</b>. Here are the <span class="gmail-m_-6721936979793530732gmail-m_-771732846071202443gmail-il">results</span>:<br><u><b><br></b></u></div><div dir="ltr"><u><b>Voting by Certificate Issuers – 19 votes total including abstentions</b></u><br><ul><li><b>19 Yes votes: </b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal">Actalis, Amazon, Buypass, Certum (Asseco), Chunghwa Telecom, DarkMatter, DigiCert, Disig, eMudhra, Entrust Datacard, GDCA, GlobalSign, HARICA, Kamu SM, Let's Encrypt, SSL.com, TrustCor, TurkTrust, Visa</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal"></span> </li><li><b>0 No vote:</b> <br></li><li><b>0 Abstain:</b> </li></ul>100% of voting Certificate Issuers voted in favor.<br><u><b><br></b></u></div><div dir="ltr"><u><b>Voting by Certificate Consumers – 4 votes total including abstentions</b></u><br><ul><li><b>4 Yes votes:</b> <span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal">Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, 360</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal"></span></li><li><b>0 No votes:</b></li><li><b>0 Abstain: </b></li></ul>100% of voting Certificate Consumers voted in favor<br><b><br></b></div><div dir="ltr"><b>Relevant Bylaw references
</b><br>Bylaw 2.3(f) requires:<br><br>a
"yes" vote by two-thirds of Certificate Issuer votes and 50%-plus-one
Certificate Consumer votes for approval. Votes to abstain are not
counted for this purpose. This requirement was met for both Certificate
Issuers and Certificate Consumers.<br>at least one Certificate Issuer
and one Certificate Consumer Member must vote in favor of a ballot for
the ballot to be adopted. This requirement was also met.
<br>Under Bylaw 2.3(g), "a ballot <span class="gmail-m_-6721936979793530732gmail-m_-771732846071202443gmail-il">result</span>
will be considered valid only when more than half of the number of
currently active Members has participated". Votes to abstain are counted
in determining a quorum. Half of currently active Members as of the
start of voting was <b>9</b>, so quorum was <b>10 votes</b> –<u> quorum was met</u>.<u><br></u><div class="gmail-m_-6721936979793530732gmail-m_-771732846071202443gmail-adL gmail-adL"><br></div></div></div></div></div>