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Ballot 72 – Reorganize EV Documents

Ballot 72 – Reorganize EV Documents (Passed Unanimously)

Motion

Jeremy Rowley made the following motion, and Simon Labram and Rich Smith endorsed it:

Motion begins

The Forum adopts, with immediate effect, the document entitled “Guidelines For The Issuance And Management Of Extended Validation Certificates, Version 1.4, Draft 04” as Version 1.4 of the EV Guidelines. The Forum also adopts, with immediate effect, the document entitled “Guidelines for the Issuance and Management of Extended Validation Code Signing Certificates” as Version 1.1 of the EV Code Signing Guidelines. The documents were circulated for review on 22 Mar 2012 and discussed during the telephone conference on 5 Apr 2012.

The Forum states that the changes which differentiate these documents from the immediately previously adopted versions (plus their errata) are intended to be entirely editorial in nature, and not to have any technical effect. If it is discovered that this goal has not been achieved, the presumption will be that the documents will be changed as quickly as possible to achieve it.

They are also available at:

The ballot review period comes into effect at 21:00 UTC on May 15, 2012 and will close at 21:00 UTC on May 22, 2012. Unless the motion is withdrawn during the review period, the voting period will start immediately thereafter and will close at 21:00 UTC on May 29, 2012. Votes must be cast by “reply all” to this email.

A vote in favor of the motion must indicate a clear ‘yes’ in the response. A vote against must indicate a clear ‘no’ in the response. A vote to abstain must indicate a clear ‘abstain’ in the response. Unclear responses will not be counted.

The latest vote received from any representative of a voting member before the close of the voting period will be counted.

Motion ends

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Server Certificate Requirements
SC-089: Mass Revocation Planning - Aug 26, 2025

Code Signing Requirements
v3.8 - Aug 5, 2024

What’s Changed CSC-25: Import EV Guidelines to CS Baseline Requirements by @dzacharo in https://github.com/cabforum/code-signing/pull/38 Full Changelog: https://github.com/cabforum/code-signing/compare/v3.7...v3.8

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v1.0.12 - Ballot SMC014 - Oct 13, 2025

This ballot introduces requirements that a Certificate Issuer MUST deploy DNSSEC validation back to the IANA DNSSEC root trust anchor on all DNS queries associated with CAA record lookups performed by the Primary Network Perspective, effective March 15, 2026. The ballot is intended to maintain consistency in the S/MIME Baseline Requirements with the requirements of Ballot SC-085 which implemented identical requirements in the TLS Baseline Requirements. Note: SC-085 also introduced requirements in TLS Baseline Requirements for the use of DNSSEC in domain control validation. These requirements are automatically adopted in the S/MIME BR by the email domain control methods that include a normative reference to section 3.2.2.4 of the TLS Baseline Requirements. The draft also includes minor corrections to web links in the text. This ballot is proposed by Stephen Davidson (DigiCert) and endorsed by Client Wilson (Apple) and Ashish Dhiman (GlobalSign).

Network and Certificate System Security Requirements
Version 2.0.5 (Ballot NS-008) - Jul 9, 2025

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