Ballot 148 – Issuer Field Correction

Ballot overview

• Ballot 148, Issuer Field Correction, was a Server Certificate Working Group ballot.
• The ballot page says voting closed on 2 April 2015.
• The page states the ballot passes.
• The ballot resulted in adoption of BRv1.2.5.

What the ballot changed

• Replaced Section 9.1 with new issuer information language requiring the Certificate Issuer Distinguished Name field to match the Subject DN of the Issuing CA for name chaining.
• Moved Section 9.2.2 to 9.2.4(a) and renumbered the following subsections.
• Deleted Section 9.2.3.
• Renumbered 9.2.4 as 9.2.2.
• Updated internal section references throughout the document.
• Added subject information requirements to Appendix B for Root CA Certificates and Subordinate CA Certificates.
• For both Root CA Certificates and Subordinate CA Certificates, the subject must include countryName and organizationName with the specified constraints.

Timing and compliance

• The review period commenced at 2200 UTC on 19 Mar 2015 and closed at 2200 UTC on 26 Mar 2015.
• The voting period started immediately after the review period and closed at 2200 UTC on 2 Apr 2015.
• The document history lists Ballot 148 as adopted on 2-April-2015 with an effective date of 2-April-2015.
• The relevant compliance dates table also lists 2015-04-01 for Section 9.4.1 and 2015-04-15 for Section 8.2.2, but those entries are unrelated to this ballot’s issuer-field changes.

Outcome

• The ballot passed with 13 YES votes from CAs, 0 NO votes, 0 abstentions, and 1 YES vote from browsers, 0 NO votes, 0 abstentions.
• The page says several votes were received after the ballot closed and were not counted.