Final Minutes of the May 28, 2026 meeting of the Validation Subcommittee

[Corey Bonnell]

These are the final minutes of the teleconference described in the subject of this message as prepared by Aaron Gable. These minutes were approved at the Validation Subcommittee call on June 11th, 2026.

 

 

 

Meeting Title: Validation Subcommittee

Date: 2026-05-28

Chair: Wayne Thayer

Note Taker: Aaron Gable

1. Administrivia

• Note Well was read by Wayne Thayer.
• Roll call will be taken automatically by Webex. See "Attendees" below.
• Minutes from 2026-05-13 (taken by Greg Tomko) were approved.
• The agenda was reviewed and approved with no changes.

2. Membership Applications

• None.

3. Discussion Topics

• None

4. Ballot Status Updates

• SC-101: Clarify Authorization Domain Names

• Aaron Gable: Ballot is ready to enter discussion period, just delayed due to incident response.

• SC-100: DNSSEC Clarification and Consolidation

• Wayne Thayer: The authors are waiting for Ballot SC-098 to exit the IPR period (expected to be early June).

• SC-102: EVG Domain Ownership Validation Reuse

• No comments

• SC-XX: Reliable Data Sources

• Scott Rea: Some discussion has happened on the mailing list
• Scott Rea: Still looking for input from auditors, and hopes to have a draft ballot ready for the June 25 meeting

5. Any Other Business

• Wayne Thayer: Ballot SC-098v2 ("Process RFC 8657 CAA Parameters") made the headline of the latest FeistyDuck Newsletter
• Trevoli Ponds-White: Draft minutes of the Validation Subcommittee meeting during F2F 26 have been shared on the management mailing list

6. Next Meeting

Date: 2026-06-11

Location: Webex teleconference

11. Adjournment

The meeting was adjourned.

Attendees

Aaron Gable (Let's Encrypt), Aaron Poulsen (SSL.com), Adam Fiock (SSL.com), Adriano Santoni (Actalis S.p.A.), Andrea Holland (IdenTrust), Arman Asemani (Apple), Ben Wilson (Mozilla), Chris Clements (Google), Corey Rasmussen (OATI), Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA), Eric Kramer (Sectigo), Ethan Davis (Google), Georgy Sebastian (Amazon), Gregory Tomko (GlobalSign), Gurleen Grewal (Google), Iñigo Barreira (Sectigo), Janet Hines (SSL.com), Johnny Reading (GoDaddy), Karolina Ruszczyńska (Asseco Data Systems SA (Certum)), Li-Chun Chen (Chunghwa Telecom), Luis Cervantes (SSL.com), Luis Osses (Amazon), Martijn Katerbarg (Sectigo), Michael Slaughter (Amazon), Michelle Coon (OATI), Nate Smith (GoDaddy), Nome Huang (TrustAsia), Ono Fumiaki (SECOM Trust Systems), Pekka Lahtiharju (Telia Company), Rebecca Kelly (SSL.com), Rob White (GoDaddy), Roman Fischer (SwissSign), Scott Rea (eMudhra), Sean Huang (TWCA), Shiloh Heurich (Fastly), Thomas Zermeno (SSL.com), Tobias Josefowitz (Opera Software AS), Trevoli Ponds-White (Amazon), Wayne Thayer (Fastly), Wendy Brown (US Federal PKI Management Authority)