[SSL Observatory] CAB Forum openness

[Gervase Markham]

Members of this list may be interested in the following motion just
passed by the CAB Forum, and the consequent visibility they will be able
to get into the CAB Forum's doings via the mailing list
"public at cabforum.org".

There was some opposition to publishing the details of who exactly voted
which way, and so I did not include that in this motion. A future motion
may address the question.

Gerv

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: [cabfpub] Ballot[79] - Mailing list usage
Date: 	Thu, 26 Jul 2012 15:02:58 +0000
From: 	Tim Moses <tim.moses at entrust.com>
To: 	CABFPub <public at cabforum.org>

Mailing list usage

Vote
Yes: 15
No: None
Abstain: None
Result: Approved


*From:*management-bounces at cabforum.org
[mailto:management-bounces at cabforum.org] *On Behalf Of *Tim Moses
*Sent:* Wednesday, July 11, 2012 4:07 PM
*To:* management at cabforum.org
*Subject:* [cabfman] Ballot[79] - Mailing list usage



Gervase Markham made the following motion and Chris Palmer and Eddy Nigg
endorsed it:

Wishing to establish guidelines for the use of the new public mailing list,

... Motion begins....

Effective immediately, the Forum resolves that:

1) Draft and final agenda for Forum meetings (both virtual and
in-person, and including any sub-groups or committees) will be posted to
the public list.

2) Draft minutes of Forum meetings (both virtual and in-person, and
including any sub-groups or committees) will be posted to the private
list to allow members to make sure they are being correctly reported.

Minutes will be considered Final when approved at a subsequent Forum
meeting, or after 2 weeks have elapsed since publication of the draft if
no meeting is imminent. Final minutes will then be posted to the public
list. The Chair will, upon request, make redactions of any part of the
public copy of the minutes identified as private or sensitive by either
the information discloser or a member mentioned or affiliated with the
subject of the information.

3) Messages formally moving a Forum motion and announcing ballot
outcomes, including vote and quorum counts, will be posted to the public
list. The details of who voted for what will continue to be posted, now
as a separate message, to the private list.

4) In other cases, individuals have discretion about which mailing list
they use, but are strongly encouraged to use the public mailing list for
matters other than security incidents or those which require commercial
confidentiality.

Members are strongly discouraged from posting the text of private-list
messages to the public list without the permission of the author.

If this motion passes, the ballot outcome message will be posted to the
public list under 3) above.

The ballot review period comes into effect at 21:00 UTC on 11 July 2012
and will close at 21:00 UTC on 18 July 2012. Unless the motion is
withdrawn during the review period, the voting period will start
immediately thereafter and will close at 21:00 UTC on 25 July 2012.
Votes must be cast by “reply all” to this message.

A vote in favour of the motion must indicate a clear 'yes' in the
response. A vote against must indicate a clear 'no' in the response. A
vote to abstain must indicate a clear 'abstain' in the response. Unclear
responses will not be counted. The latest vote received from any
representative of a voting member before the close of the voting period
will be counted.

... Motion ends ...

Voting members are listed here:

http://www.cabforum.org/forum.html

with the addition of TrendMicro
<https://www.cabforum.org/wiki/TrendMicro> and E-TUGRA.

In order for the motion to be adopted, two thirds or more of the votes
cast by members in the CA category and one half or more of the votes
cast by members in the browser category must be in favour. Also, at
least eight members must participate in the ballot, either by voting in
favour, voting against or abstaining.



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