Mozilla votes "Yes" to Ballot SC-68. On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 2:00 AM Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA) via Servercert-wg <servercert-wg@cabforum.org> wrote:
> This email initiates the voting period for ballot SC-68. Please vote. > > > Purpose of the Ballot > > The EV Guidelines have strict rules in the organizationIdentifier values > and require the country code of all currently-allowed Registration Schemes > (NTR, VAT, PSD) to follow the ISO 3166-1 for the 2-letter country prefix. > > The organizationIdentifier language mainly came from ETSI EN 319 412-1 and > then the SCWG made several modifications. However, there is an exception > for Greece specifically for the VAT Registration Scheme that is aligned > with Article 215 of Council Directive 2006/112/EC > <https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2006/112/oj> that allows Greece to use > the country prefix "EL". In practice, Greece uses the prefix "EL" to > identify itself next to the VAT number of all Legal Entities > registered/incorporated/established in Greece, and all other European > Countries use this prefix to identify Greek VAT numbers. This can easily be > verified in the VIES VAT number validation website > <https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/#/vat-validation> where > Greece is listed as"EL". > > There is also Council Directive 2020/1756 > <https://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2020/1756/oj> amending Directive > 2006/112/EC that requires the prefix "XI" for the identification of taxable > persons in Northern Ireland. > > This pull request <https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/pull/473> > proposes updates to the EV Guidelines to allow those additional prefixes. > It also fixes some formatting issues. > > The following motion has been proposed by Dimitris Zacharopoulos of HARICA > and endorsed by Ben Wilson of Mozilla and Corey Bonnell of Digicert. > > MOTION BEGINS > > This ballot modifies the “Guidelines for the Issuance and Management of > Extended Validation Certificates” (“EV Guidelines”), based on Version 1.8.0. > > MODIFY the EV Guidelines as specified in the following Redline: > > - > > https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/da89d0e9700c6dd89a8263526addc39f472bf54c > . > > MOTION ENDS > The procedure for this ballot is as follows: > > > *Start time (8:00 UTC)* *End time (8:00 UTC)* > Discussion (at least 7 days) 2024-01-16 2024-01-23 > Expected Vote for approval (7 days) 2024-01-23 > 2024-01-30 > _______________________________________________ > Servercert-wg mailing list > Servercert-wg@cabforum.org > https://lists.cabforum.org/mailman/listinfo/servercert-wg >
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