Ballot 141 – Elimination of EV Insurance Requirement; Financial Responsibility for Mis-Issued Certificates

Ballot overview

• Ballot 141 is titled Elimination of EV Insurance Requirement; Financial Responsibility for Mis-Issued Certificates.
• The ballot proposes deleting EV Guidelines Section 8.4 and revising liability limits in the EV Guidelines and Baseline Requirements.
• The page states that voting on Ballot 141 closed on 19 January 2015 and that Ballot 141 fails.

Proposed changes

• Delete the existing EV insurance requirements in EV Guidelines Section 8.4.
• Amend EV Guidelines Section 18 so a CA may not limit liability for legally recognized and provable claims to less than 10,000 US dollars per Subscriber or Relying Party per EV Certificate.
• Amend Baseline Requirements Section 18.1 so a CA may not limit liability to less than 2,000 US dollars per Subscriber or Relying Party per DV Certificate or less than 5,000 US dollars per Subscriber or Relying Party per OV Certificate.
• The ballot text says the proposal does not otherwise change whatever legal liability a CA would or would not have under applicable law.

Ballot process dates

• The review period was to commence at 2200 UTC on Monday, 5 January 2015.
• The review period was to close at 2200 UTC on Wednesday, 12 January 2015.
• The voting period was to start immediately thereafter and close at 2200 UTC on Wednesday, 19 January 2015.

Outcome

• The page states that the Chair received yes votes from several members, no votes from several members, and 5 abstentions.
• The page explicitly concludes that Ballot 141 fails.