Ballot SC025: Define New HTTP Domain Validation Methods v2

Ballot overview

• Ballot SC025, Define New HTTP Domain Validation Methods v2, was a Final Maintenance Guideline in the Server Certificate Working Group.
• The ballot modified the Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted Certificates based on Version 1.6.7.
• Its purpose was to set a sunset date for the current Method 6 and define two new Domain Validation methods:
  • one intended to replace Method 6, Agreed-Upon Change to Website
  • one describing the ACME HTTP method defined in section 8.3 of RFC 8555

Approval and voting

• The ballot results state that the voting period ended and the ballot passed.
• Certificate Issuers: 24 yes votes, 0 no votes, 0 abstain.
• Certificate Consumers: 5 yes votes, 0 no votes, 0 abstain.
• The page states that the bylaw requirements for approval were met for both Certificate Issuers and Certificate Consumers.
• The page also states that quorum was met.

Procedure dates stated on the ballot page

• Discussion period: 2020-01-17 09:00 Eastern to not before 2020-01-24 09:00 Eastern
• Vote period: 2020-01-24 12:30 Eastern to 2020-01-31 12:30 Eastern

Compliance impact

• The supplied evidence does not include the redline text or any explicit effective date for the new requirements.
• The ballot page excerpt only states the proposal and the voting outcome, not the implementation date or detailed conditional applicability.