FORUM-18 passed

Ballot FORUM-18 – Allow Re-election of CWG Chairs and Vice Chairs

Forum Ballots

Key dates

Effective date: 03 Aug 2022 3 years ago
Voting opened: 27 Jul 2022 3 years ago
Voting closed: 03 Aug 2022 3 years ago
Discussion opened: 20 Jul 2022 3 years ago
Discussion closed: 27 Jul 2022 3 years ago

Resources

⎇ GitHub diff https://github.com/cabforum/forum/compare/fa1a5cb37a452e53d769ed759c06f05d21b1cb4b..f197d28fac92c807896d55b6ef43b776b6264aca redline link

AI Summary

Generated 2026-06-23 21:26 UTC

Ballot outcome

Ballot FORUM-18 passed.
Voting on the ballot closed and the quorum was met.
CAs voting in favor: Actalis, Buypass, Comsign, DigiCert, Disig, eMudhra, Entrust, Fastly, GDCA, GlobalSign, GoDaddy, HARICA, Izenpe, JPRS, OISTE, SECOM, Sectigo, SSL.com, SwissSign, TrustCor, Visa.
Against: none.
Abstaining: none.
Certificate Consumers voting in favor: Apple, Google, Mozilla, 360.
Against: none.
Abstaining: none.
The ballot does not involve IPR, so there will be no IPR review.

What the ballot changes

The Bylaws are amended to clarify that CWG Chairs and Vice Chairs may run for re-election if they choose.
The ballot keeps the existing prohibition on re-election for Forum Chairs and Vice Chairs.
The linked redline shows the change to Bylaws.md stating that CWG Chairs and Vice Chairs may run for re-election.

Timing

Discussion period: 2022-07-20 2:45 PM Eastern (US) to 2022-07-27 3:15 PM Eastern (US).
Vote period: 2022-07-27 3:15 PM Eastern (US) to 2022-08-03 3:15 PM Eastern (US).

Model: gpt-5.4-mini Confidence: 0.98 Result: passed

Effective date: 2022-08-03
Voting opened: 2022-07-27
Voting closed: 2022-08-03
Discussion opened: 2022-07-20
Discussion closed: 2022-07-27

Applicability and conditions

2022-08-03 — CWG Chairs and Vice Chairs may run for re-election if they choose CWG Chairs and Vice Chairs

AI-generated from the CABF ballot page. The official CABF article remains the authoritative source.

Proposers

Tim Hollebeek of DigiCert and endorsed by Ben Wilson of Mozilla and Wayne Thayer of Fastly.

Excerpt

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