Erwann Abalea <eaba...@gmail.com> writes:

>And that's not CABF's duty and responsibility. What the CABF can impose to
>CABF members is to follow the bylaws, the internal governance rules. By
>following them, all members write the guidelines and decide on what changes
>to adopt, and browsers then impose CAs to follow these guidelines.

Hmm, OK.  I was just wondering why the CABF seemed to be missing in action,
since it appeared to be the logical place to address this sort of issue.

>What appears from the CABF meeting minutes is that the WoSign+StartCom+Qihoo
>combination is looked after, precisely regarding the bylaws.

Hmm, I'm not quite sure what you mean by that, but a quick check of the most
recently published minutes:

https://cabforum.org/2016/09/15/2016-09-15-minutes/
https://cabforum.org/2016/09/29/2016-09-29-minutes/

indicate that not much has happened, there's just a brief comment about
whether { WoSign, Startcom, Qihoo 360 } should be treated as one entity or
three.  I assume that's the bylaw issue?

So there really is no-one running the show, meaning no coordinating body that
can say "bad things are happening over here, you need to take action to deal
with them"?  It just seems odd that the next time a CA goes rogue, every end
user on the planet has to wait for whatever browser vendor they rely on to
make some arbitrary decision on what to do, or as it seems for many vendors in
the case of WoSign, do nothing.  The only one who's openly addressed this
seems to be Mozilla.

Peter.
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