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Ballot SMC06: Post implementation clarification and corrections
March 26, 2024 by Stephen DavidsonBallot SMC06: Post implementation clarification and corrections Purpose of Ballot: The ballot proposes changes to the S/MIME Baseline Requirements to provide clarifications and corrections arising from the implementation of the S/MIME BR and initial audits. The following motion has been proposed by Stephen Davidson of DigiCert and endorsed by Martijn Katerbarg of Sectigo and Roman Fischer of SwissSign. Motion Begins This ballot modifies the “Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted S/MIME Certificates” (“S/MIME Baseline Requirements”) resulting in Version 1.
2024-02-28 Minutes of the S/MIME Certificate Working Group
February 28, 2024 by Stephen DavidsonMinutes of SMCWG February 28, 2024, F2F #61 These are the Approved Minutes of the meeting described in the subject of this message. Corrections and clarifications where needed are encouraged by reply. Attendees (physical and online) Aaron Poulsen - (Amazon), Abhishek Bhat - (eMudhra), Adam Jones - (Microsoft), Adrian Mueller - (SwissSign), Adriano Santoni - (Actalis S.p.A.), Andrea Holland - (VikingCloud), Andres Henschel - (D-TRUST), Antti Backman - (Telia Company), Arno Fiedler - (ETSI), Arnold Essing - (Telekom Security), Arvid Vermote - (GlobalSign), Ashish Dhiman - (GlobalSign), Ben Wilson - (Mozilla), Bilal Ashraf - (SSL.
Ballot SC-70: Clarify the use of DTPs for Domain Control Validation
February 23, 2024 by Aaron GableVoting Results Certificate Issuers 28 votes total, with no abstentions: • 28 Issuers voting YES: Actalis, Buypass, Certum (Asseco), CFCA, Chunghwa Telecom, CommScope, D-TRUST, DigiCert, Disig, eMudhra, Entrust, Fastly, GDCA, GlobalSign, GoDaddy, HARICA, iTrusChina, Izenpe, JPRS, Kamu SM, Let’s Encrypt / ISRG, OISTE, SECOM, Sectigo, SSL.com, SwissSign,Telia Company, Viking Cloud • 0 Issuers voting NO • 0 Issuers ABSTAIN Certificate Consumers 4 votes total, with no abstentions: 4 Consumers voting YES: Apple, Google, Mozilla, Opera 0 Consumers voting NO 0 Consumers ABSTAIN Bylaws Requirements Bylaw 2.
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Code Signing Requirements
v3.7 - Mar 4, 2024

S/MIME Requirements
v1.0.3 - Ballot SMC05 - Feb 20, 2024

Adding CAA.

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The Certification Authority Browser Forum (CA/Browser Forum) is a voluntary gathering of Certificate Issuers and suppliers of Internet browser software and other applications that use certificates (Certificate Consumers).