CA:Schedule

Schedule for CA evaluations

Note that this schedule is tentative and may change without warning based on unforeseen circumstances. Nothing in this schedule shall be construed as a commitment by the Mozilla Foundation or the Mozilla project in general.

General timeline

Our process for evaluating CA requests is as follows:

1. We assign CAs into different groups according to the general priority of processing their requests, and then assign each CA a specific target date for beginning public discussion of their request(s).
2. Prior to the target date for a CA we gather any needed information from the CA; if for some reason we cannot obtain the needed information then we will postpone consideration of the CA and schedule some other CA for that target date.
3. Once a CA enters the public discussion period we allow one week for public comment on the CA's request, after which we will make a preliminary determination as to whether the request should be approved or not.
4. If a request receives preliminary approval then we have a second one-week comment period prior to final approval.
5. If a request receives final approval then we will file bugs against the appropriate developer(s) to have the necessary changes made to NSS (for CA root inclusion) or PSM (for EV-enabling a CA) or both.
6. If a request does not receive preliminary or final approval then it will be put back in the queue and reassigned a new target date.

Once bugs are filed against NSS and/or PSM the schedule is set first by the NSS/PSM developer(s) (for making the technical changes) and then by the product teams for Firefox and other products (to include the new changes in a release of Firefox, etc.)

Priority groups

CAs are assigned priorities based on the following factors, among others:

• length of time the CA has been in the queue
• whether information gathering for the CA has been completed
• whether the request is for EV status
• market share of the CA
• size and importance of the CA's geographic market

Tentative priority assignments:

• Higher priority: KISA, SECOM Trust, FNMT, ICP-Brasil, WISeKey, T-system Trust Center, Chunghwa Telecom eCA
• Normal priority: DCSSI
• Lower priority: ACCV, CATCert, ARGEN DATA, Izenpe

Target schedule

The current schedule is predicated on our starting public discussion on one new CA each week.

Date	CA	Bug(s)	Notes
2008/09/29	TBD	TBD	TBD
not scheduled	ACCV	274100	Spain	regional government CA
not scheduled	CATCert	295474	Spain	regional government CA
not scheduled	Trustis	324126	?
not scheduled	KISA	335197	Korea	national government CA
not scheduled	ARGE DATEN	348987	Austria
not scheduled	Izenpe	361957	Spain	EV
not scheduled	DCSSI	368970	France	national government CA
not scheduled	DigiNotar	369357	Netherlands	EV
not scheduled	Microsec Ltd	370505	?
not scheduled	S-TRUST	370627	?
not scheduled	WISeKey	371362	N/A
not scheduled	T-system Trust Center	378882	Germany
not scheduled	Lithuanian National Root	379152	Lithuania
not scheduled	Kamu Sertifikasyon Merkezi	381974	Turkey
not scheduled	TC TrustCenter	392024	?
not scheduled	Certigna	393166	?
not scheduled	SECOM Trust	394419	Japan	EV
not scheduled	Certicámara SA	401262	?
not scheduled	Comodo	401587	n/a	EV
not scheduled	VeriSign	402947	n/a	EV
not scheduled	GlobalSign	406796	n/a	EV
not scheduled	Camerifirma	406968	?
not scheduled	thawte	407163	n/a	EV
not scheduled	GeoTrust	407168	n/a	EV
not scheduled	Hongkong Post	408949	China
not scheduled	Verisign	409235	n/a	ECC
not scheduled	GeoTrust	409236	n/a	ECC
not scheduled	thawte	409237	n/a	ECC
not scheduled	VAS "Latvijas Pasts"	412747	Latvia
not scheduled	Sertifitseerimiskeskus AS	414520	?
not scheduled	Entrust	416544	n/a	EV
not scheduled	Comsign	420705	?
not scheduled	Verisign, GeoTrust and thawte	420760	n/a	EV, no longer needed?
not scheduled	GTE CyberTrust	430694	n/a	EV
not scheduled	Baltimore CyberTrust	430698	n/a	EV
not scheduled	Cybertrust	430700	n/a	EV
not scheduled	TÜRKTRUST	433845	Turkey
not scheduled	Swiss BIT	435026	Switzerland
not scheduled	FNMT	435736	Spain	national government CA
not scheduled	Staat der Nederlanden	436056	Netherlands	national government CA
not scheduled	TC TrustCenter	436467	?	EV
not scheduled	ICP-Brasil	438825	Brazil	national government CA
not scheduled	E-Tugra	443653	?
not scheduled	Chunghwa Telecom eCA	448794	?
not scheduled	StartCom	451298	Israel	add code signing, EV
not scheduled	SwissSign	453460	Switzerland	EV
not scheduled	Disig	455878	?