Letter
Ottawa, 6 August 2015
By Email
Mr. Stephen Schmidt
Vice President - Telecom Policy and Regulatory Affairs
TELUS Communications Company
215 Slater Street
Ottawa, Ont. K1P 0A6
regulatory.affairs@telus.com
RE: Migration of technology standards for signed certificates from SHA-1 to SHA-2
Dear Sir:
On 23 July 2015, the Chairperson of the CRTC Interconnection Steering Committee (CISC) Business Process Working Group (BPWG) submitted, for CISC Steering Committee approval, non consensus report (BPRE093a) regarding the migration of technology standards for signed certificates from SHA-1 to SHA-2.
In the report it is stated that the BPWG reached consensus on the need to migrate as soon as possible from digital certificates signed with the SHA-1 algorithm to certificates signed with SHA-2 (specifically, SHA-256), and the following dates were proposed for said migration:
- 1st milestone (November 16, 2015) - all companies must accept files sent with SHA-2, if requested.
- 2nd milestone (March 28, 2016) - all companies must be ready to send files using SHA-2, if requested.
- 3rd milestone (June 27, 2016) - no further use of SHA-1.
However, in the report it is also stated that all participants, with the exception of TELUS Communications Company (TCC), reached consensus on the above-proposed dates. The report indicates that although TCC supports this initiative it was not able to commit to the November date at this time, and that it would be some time in Q1 2016 before TCC could comply with the 1st milestone.
Commission staff requests that TCC respond to the following requests for information by 12 August 2015:
- Provide the company’s rationale as to why it was not able to commit to the 1st milestone date (November 16, 2015), and confirm what date the company is prepared to commit to for this 1st milestone.
- Regardless of the company’s response to question 1 above, confirm whether the company can commit to the 2nd and 3rd milestone dates (March 28, 2016 and June 27,
- 2016 respectively). If the company cannot commit to either one or both of those dates, provide the company’s rationale as to why not, and confirm what date(s) the company is prepared to commit to.
- If the Commission were to direct that all service providers, including TCC, abide by the migration schedule proposed in the report, explain what the impact would be on the company.
Sincerely,
Original signed by
Michel Murray
Director, Dispute Resolution and Regulatory Implementation
Telecommunications sector
c.c.: BPWG Distribution list
Bob Martin, CRTC, 819-953-3361, robert.martin@crtc.gc.ca
Attachment: Distribution list
Distribution list:
andrea.heller@sasktel.com; dmckeown@viewcom.ca; debbie.schepens@mtsallstream.com; dennis.joudrey@bell.ca; ddolan@teksavvy.ca; gerry.thompson@rci.rogers.com; jodi.bond@mtsallstream.com; justin.gerogiannis@corp.eastlink.ca; karen.janz@telus.com; kim.marquis@aliant.ca; martin.perreaultING@videotron.com; melanie.cardin@videotron.com; michelle.dupuis@telus.com; npullar@nwtel.ca; neil.fahlman@sasktel.com; rob.olenick@tbaytel.com; samuel.glazer@bell.ca; singam.karian@sjrb.ca; peterandrewlang21@gmail.com; aaron.odell@sjrb.ca; nexiphone@nexicom.net; anand.rathi@neustar.biz; abadea@iristel.ro; a.schneider@hay.net; anne.mcmillan@distributel.ca; anthonycozzi@globalive.com; beckie.dougherty@bell.ca; brovet@cognitionllp.com; bweppler@wightman.ca; bianca.sgambetterra@cogeco.com; Mason, Bill; regulatory@telnetcommunications.com; bob.bruce@syniverse.com; rpachal@pacomm.com; boba.topalovic@rci.rogers.com; babramson@teksavvy.ca; brenda.desharnais@teliphone.ca; cscase@globility.ca; cathy.sutton@rci.rogers.com; cedric.tardif@derytelecom.ca; charles.pronovost@videotron.com; chickey@primustel.ca; chickey@cnoc.ca; christopher.ewart@allstream.com; ctacit@tacitlaw.com; cindy.mcclocklin@shaw.ca; cindy.pupp@sjrb.ca; clayton@mnsi.net; cristina.sciarra@rci.rogers.com; dchartrand@corp.fibernetics.ca; darlene.gollan@aliant.ca; david.peters@bellaliant.ca; deb.bartelen@telus.com; regaffairs@quebecor.com; denis.chartier0@gmail.com; dylan.neufeld@bell.ca; edward.martens@allstream.com; eric-j.boisvert@sogetel.com; eric.unrau@teliphone.ca; erich.baumgartner@rci.rogers.com; esther.snow@sjrb.ca; farshad.jenabfar@rci.rogers.com; francois.asselin@cogeco.com; bpwg@bctip.com; gail.strickland@telus.com; gary.donadel@tbaytel.com; gilles.brunet@videotron.com; grubb@hurontel.on.ca; gordpotter@rogers.com; gcordeau@maskatel.qc.ca; gfietz@tritonglobal.ca; guylaine.brunelle@sogetel.com; csgntl@ntl.nt.net; jacques.brazeau@bell.ca; james.mackenzie@wimactel.com; jmalcolmson@globility.ca; jlandry@fibernetics.ca; jfharel@cooptel.qc.ca; jmdaoust@cgocable.ca; jrgaudet@maskatel.qc.ca; Lacombe, Jeanne; jbrolese@brucetelecom.com; jenna.d_cruze@bell.ca; johanna.singels@bell.ca; jmathon@telebec.com; john.mackenzie@telus.com; johns@sentex.ca; jonathan.holmes@itpa.ca; josee.neron@sympatico.ca; joseph.bassili@colba.net; judy.baillie@tbaytel.com; kbrown@fibernetics.ca; kturnsek@vianet.ca; kenneth.peacock@allstream.com; Wardle, Kim; kirsten.embree@fmc-law.com; khai.nguyen@bell.ca; kmitchell@primustel.ca; laurence.amar@rci.rogers.com; laurie.ackland@bell.ca; lee.mercury@allstream.com; leslie.white@aliant.ca; lily.marrello@rci.rogers.com; legan@primustel.ca; ltoner@corp.fibernetics.ca; manon.godin@sogetel.com; marcel.champagne@neustar.biz; marian.hearn@clnpc.ca; marian.wallace@telus.com; mavincent@cooptel.qc.ca; marielle.wilson@corp.eastlink.ca; mark.essenburg@mtsallstream.com; mark.mcdougall@mobilicity.ca; martin.jongkind@rci.rogers.com; mleduc@xittel.net; m.flanagan@sympatico.ca; melanye@isptelecom.net; mconway@primaltech.com; michael.feener@aliant.ca; mrgamey@publicmobile.ca; mkoch@goodmans.ca; michel.messier@cogeco.com; Murray, Michel; mmarchand@telebec.com; michelle.berkowits@mts.ca; michelle.hughes@dsmtel.com; mpreda@iristel.com; michelle.ross@mornington.ca; natalie.macdonald@corp.eastlink.ca; nathalie.lacroix@caztel.com; nbhandari@cwta.ca; ntheriau@isptelecom.net; noelle.mckinley@telus.com; ofir.smadja@comsolveinc.com; olivier.bourreau@gmail.com; eandoconsulting@gmail.com; pat.keatley@1canclear.com; padumas@rocler.qc.ca; paul.hammerton@rci.rogers.com; philippe.pariseau@cogeco.com; bpwg@comwave.net; ray@wtccommunications.ca; rbanks@mornington.ca; ricardo.rayman@bell.ca; rschleihauf@fibernetics.ca; robm@clearcable.ca; robert.chan2@telus.com; ron.wagner@sasktel.com; sage.wiese@bell.ca; sbishay@iristel.com; sweatherhead@globility.ca; kaastras@westmancom.com; sthorne@modernworks.ca; sgrantham@walled.net; simon-pierre.olivier@fidomobile.ca; spbrahma@netechinc.com; stephen.abbott@caztel.com; steve@wtccommunications.ca; stuthompson@rogers.com; Jss.csi@cooperativesynergies.ca; susan.brooker@bell.ca; blackwell@giganomics.ca; svuksic@corp.fibernetics.ca; suzi.kuntze@allstream.com; terry.fok@allstream.com; tthornton@nexicomgroup.ne; ttimm@bluejaynetworks.com; tsullivan@wightman.ca; twong@globility.ca; tom.zimnicki@frontiernetworks.ca; tracey.kenning@hotmail.com; tracy.cant@ontera.ca; tracy.hartman@sjrb.ca; tracy.nixonspoor@rci.rogers.com; ugrant@cwta.ca; valerie.beliak@telus.com; wen.kwan@ic.gc.ca; ybarzakay@comwave.net; ygelinas@isptelecom.net; robert.martin@crtc.gc.ca;
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