Unlocking the power of TLS certificate automation for a safer and more reliable Internet

Google is looking to change the policy of the Chrome Root Store (used by Chrome to verify TLS certificates that protect websites and other services) to require "that applicants seeking inclusion in the Chrome Root Store must support automated certificate issuance and management". They can still provide a manual method for sites that want to get certificates the old way but they will need to have some kind of automated method available.