Ballot SC087v2: Registration Number Improvement for EV Certificates

Ballot overview

• Ballot SC087v2 is titled Registration Number Improvement for EV Certificates.
• It amends the EV Guidelines to clarify how Registration Numbers and Date of Formation values are handled in the subject:serialNumber field.
• The ballot page states that the ballot passed the Initial Vote and is for Review Notice purposes only, not yet in effect.

What changes

• The ballot updates the EV Guidelines to specify how to encode Registration Numbers, Dates of Formation, and other values in the subject:serialNumber attribute.
• For Private Organizations, the CA must include the Registration Number it obtained and verified; if no Registration Number is provided by the jurisdiction, the CA must include the Date of Formation.
• For Government Entities, the CA must include the Registration Number it obtained and verified; if no Registration Number is provided, the CA must include the Date of Formation, and if no Date of Formation is available, the CA must indicate that the Subject is a Government Entity.
• For Business Entities, the CA must include the Registration Number it obtained and verified; if no Registration Number is provided, the CA must include the Date of Formation.
• For Non-Commercial Entity Subjects, the CA must include the Date of Formation; if no Date of Formation is available, the CA must indicate that the Subject is a Non-Commercial Entity.
• The ballot also defines Canonical Date Representation as YYYY-MM-DD and adds a requirement that, effective 2027-09-15, if the CA includes the Date of Formation, it must use the Canonical Date Representation.

Voting and approval

• Certificate Issuers: 18 votes total, with 17 voting YES, 0 voting NO, and 1 ABSTAIN.
• Certificate Consumers: 1 vote total, with 1 voting YES, 0 voting NO, and 0 ABSTAIN.
• The ballot met the Bylaw 2.3(6) approval thresholds for both categories.
• The quorum requirement was met, with quorum stated as 16.

Review period

• The Review Notice states a 30-day review period.
• Start of Review Period: 2026-06-03 11:00:00 UTC
• End of Review Period: 2026-07-03 11:00:00 UTC
• The notice says members with Essential Claims to exclude must submit a Notice to Exclude Essential Claims before the end of the Review Period.