Discussion period begins: SC-087v2: Registration Number Improvement for EV Certificates

[Corey Bonnell]

Purpose of Ballot

 

There have been varying interpretations of the EV Guidelines on the inclusion of values in the serialNumber attribute. This ballot explicitly specifies how to encode Registration Numbers, Dates of Formation, and other values in the serialNumber attribute. Additionally, the ballot mandates a standard encoding for date values encoded within this attribute.

 

The following motion has been proposed by Corey Bonnell (DigiCert) and endorsed by Ben Wilson (Mozilla) and Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA).

 

 

Motion Begins

 

MODIFY the " Guidelines for the Issuance and Management of Extended Validation Certificates" ("EV Guidelines") based on Version 2.0.2 as specified in the following redline:

 

https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/f88428082c4411d7a1cebfd52fca7f5f420efab2...a8bd03e741bc79ba0f1606dc4d2ec0bea4fc0fca

 

Motion Ends

 

This ballot proposes a Final Maintenance Guideline. The procedure for approval of this ballot is as follows:

 

 

Discussion (at least 7 days)

 

    Start time: 2026-05-19 12:00 UTC

    End time: on or after 2026-05-26 12:00 UTC

 

Vote for approval (7 days)

 

    Start time: TBD

    End time: TBD

 

[Corey Bonnell]

This version 2 adds an explicit requirement to use the Gregorian calendar, as suggested by Tom.

 

Absent other comments, I plan to start the discussion period next Tuesday.

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[Corey Bonnell]

Sorry for the spam. I had a typo in the previous email stating that I intend to start the discussion period next week. To be clear, the ballot is already in discussion period, and I plan to start the *voting* period next Tuesday.

 

Thanks,

Corey

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[Corey Bonnell]

    End time: 2026-05-26 12:30 UTC

 

Vote for approval (7 days)

 

    Start time: 2026-05-26 12:30 UTC

    End time: 2026-06-02 12:30 UTC

[Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA)]

HARICA votes "yes" to ballot SC087v2.

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[Ben Wilson]

Mozilla votes "yes" on Ballot SC-087v2.

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[Adriano Santoni]

Actalis votes "yes" to ballot SC087v2. 

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[Pedro FUENTES]

OISTE votes Yes to SC-087v2

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[Alvin Wang]

SHECA votes "yes" on Ballot SC-087v2.

Thanks!

[Backman, Antti]

Hi, 

Telia ‘Abstains’ from voting on Ballot SC-087v2 as we’re not issuing EV certificates

//Antti

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Subject: [Servercert-wg] Voting period begins: SC-087v2: Registration Number Improvement for EV Certificates

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[Andrea Holland]

IdenTrust votes Yes on SC-087v2.

 

Sincerely,

Andrea

 

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[jun....@cybertrust.co.jp]

Cybertrust Japan votes Yes on SC-087v2.

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There have been varying interpretations of the EV Guidelines on the inclusion of values in the serialNumber attribute. This ballot explicitly specifies how to encode Registration Numbers, Dates of Formation, and other values in the serialNumber attribute. Additionally, the ballot mandates a standard encoding for date values encoded within this attribute.



The following motion has been proposed by Corey Bonnell (DigiCert) and endorsed by Ben Wilson (Mozilla) and Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA).





Motion Begins



MODIFY the " Guidelines for the Issuance and Management of Extended Validation Certificates" ("EV Guidelines") based on Version 2.0.2 as specified in the following redline:

https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/f88428082c4411d7a1cebfd52fca7f5f420efab2...a8bd03e741bc79ba0f1606dc4d2ec0bea4fc0fca <https://url.avanan.click/v2/r01/___https:/github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/f88428082c4411d7a1cebfd52fca7f5f420efab2...a8bd03e741bc79ba0f1606dc4d2ec0bea4fc0fca___.YXAzOmRpZ2ljZXJ0OmE6bzoxMDhkZGJmZDdlOGFlMDMzMWU1MmU4NjA1YjE3MThjNzo3OjgzMjM6ZTlmMWJiNTE1OThhZTk5Mjk1MWI1MmNkNmViYmU4YTY2ODQzOTZmYWEzODQ1MjVhYTk1ZTM4MGJiOTQxMGYwZjpoOlQ6Rg>

Motion Ends



This ballot proposes a Final Maintenance Guideline. The procedure for approval of this ballot is as follows:





Discussion (at least 7 days)



Start time: 2026-05-19 12:00 UTC

End time: 2026-05-26 12:30 UTC



Vote for approval (7 days)



Start time: 2026-05-26 12:30 UTC

End time: 2026-06-02 12:30 UTC

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[大野 文彰]

SECOM Trust Systems votes YES on Ballot SC-087v2.

 

Best regards,

 

ONO Fumiaki / 大野 文彰

(Japanese name order: family name first, in uppercase)

SECOM Trust Systems CO., LTD.

 

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[Nome Huang]

TrustAsia votes “Yes” on ballot SC-087v2.

[Kateryna Aleksieieva]

Certum votes YES on Ballot SC-087v2

 

Kind regards,

Kateryna Aleksieieva

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[Inigo Barreira]

Sectigo votes yes.

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[Christophe Bonjean]

GlobalSign votes “Yes” on SC-087v2.

 

Christophe

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[sde...@godaddy.com]

GoDaddy votes Yes on SC-087v2.  

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Steven Deitte

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[qi_ji...@itrus.com.cn]

iTrusChina votes “Yes” on ballot SC-087v2.

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[Scott Rea]

eMudhra votes Yes on Ballot SC-087v2

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[Yoshihiko Matsuo]

JPRS votes YES on Ballot SC-087v2.

Yoshihiko Matsuo(JPRS)

On Tue, 26 May 2026 12:23:33 +0000
"'Corey Bonnell' via Server Certificate WG (CA/B Forum)" <server...@groups.cabforum.org> wrote:

> Purpose of Ballot
>
> There have been varying interpretations of the EV Guidelines on the inclusion of values in the serialNumber attribute. This ballot explicitly specifies how to encode Registration Numbers, Dates of Formation, and other values in the serialNumber attribute. Additionally, the ballot mandates a standard encoding for date values encoded within this attribute.
>
> The following motion has been proposed by Corey Bonnell (DigiCert) and endorsed by Ben Wilson (Mozilla) and Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA).
>
>
> Motion Begins
>
> MODIFY the " Guidelines for the Issuance and Management of Extended Validation Certificates" ("EV Guidelines") based on Version 2.0.2 as specified in the following redline:
>

> <https://url.avanan.click/v2/r01/___https:/github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/f88428082c4411d7a1cebfd52fca7f5f420efab2...a8bd03e741bc79ba0f1606dc4d2ec0bea4fc0fca___.YXAzOmRpZ2ljZXJ0OmE6bzoxMDhkZGJmZDdlOGFlMDMzMWU1MmU4NjA1YjE3MThjNzo3OjgzMjM6ZTlmMWJiNTE1OThhZTk5Mjk1MWI1MmNkNmViYmU4YTY2ODQzOTZmYWEzODQ1MjVhYTk1ZTM4MGJiOTQxMGYwZjpoOlQ6Rg>https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/f88428082c4411d7a1cebfd52fca7f5f420efab2...a8bd03e741bc79ba0f1606dc4d2ec0bea4fc0fca

>
> Motion Ends
>
> This ballot proposes a Final Maintenance Guideline. The procedure for approval of this ballot is as follows:
>
>
> Discussion (at least 7 days)
>
> Start time: 2026-05-19 12:00 UTC
> End time: 2026-05-26 12:30 UTC
>
> Vote for approval (7 days)
>
> Start time: 2026-05-26 12:30 UTC
> End time: 2026-06-02 12:30 UTC
>
>

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