Ballot SC009: Establish the Validation Subcommittee of the SCWG

Ballot overview

• Ballot SC009 established the Validation Subcommittee as an official subcommittee of the Server Certificate Working Group.
• The ballot was proposed by Wayne Thayer of Mozilla and endorsed by Tim Hollebeek of DigiCert and Dimitris Zacharopoulos of HARICA.
• The stated mission was to improve information validation practices encoded in the guidelines maintained by the SCWG.
• The subcommittee was to continue until dissolved by a ballot of the SCWG.

Approval and voting results

• The voting period for Ballot SC9 had ended and the ballot passed.
• CA votes: 17 yes, 0 no, 0 abstain.
• Browser votes: 4 yes, 0 no, 0 abstain.
• Quorum was met, with quorum stated as 12 votes.
• The ballot met the approval requirements for both CAs and browsers.
• At least one CA Member and one browser Member voted in favor, satisfying the adoption requirement.

Procedure and timing

• Discussion period: 2018-09-19 16:00 UTC to 2018-09-26 16:00 UTC.
• Vote for approval: 2018-09-26 16:00 UTC to 2018-10-03 16:00 UTC.

Subcommittee terms

• Initial Chair: Tim Hollebeek.
• Participation: any member of the SCWG could join by requesting to be added to the mailing list.
• Communications and documents were to be posted on publicly accessible mailing lists.
• The subcommittee was to publish minutes of its meetings.
• If the SCWG Charter or CA/Browser Forum Bylaws were amended to add general rules for subcommittees, those general rules would take precedence over this charter.