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Ballot SC044: Clarify Acceptable Status Codes

The voting on ballot SC44 has completed, and the ballot has passed.

Voting Results

Certificate Issuers

21 votes total, with no abstentions

· 21 Yes votes: Buypass, Certum (Asseco), Chunghwa Telecom, D-TRUST, DigiCert, eMudhra, Entrust, Firmaprofesional, GlobalSign, GoDaddy, HARICA, Kamu SM, Let’s Encrypt / ISRG, OISTE, Sectigo, SSL.com, SwissSign, Telia Company, TrustCor, SecureTrust, Visa

· 0 No Votes

· 0 Abstentions

Certificate Consumers

5 votes total, with no abstentions

  1. 5 Yes votes: Apple, Cisco, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla

  2. 0 No votes

  3. 0 Abstentions

Bylaw Requirements

  1. Bylaw 2.3(f) requires:

o A “yes” vote by two-thirds of Certificate Issuer votes and by 50%-plus-one of Certificate Consumer votes. Votes to abstain are not counted for this purpose. This requirement was MET for Certificate Issuers and MET for Certificate Consumers.

o at least one Certificate Issuer and one Certificate Consumer Member must vote in favor of a ballot for the ballot to be adopted. This requirement was MET.

  1. Bylaw 2.3(g) requires that a ballot result only be considered valid when “more than half of the number of currently active Members has participated”. Votes to abstain are counted in determining quorum. Half of the currently active members at the start of voting was 12, so the quorum was 13 for this ballot. This requirement was MET.

This ballot now enters the IP Rights Review Period to permit members to review the ballot for relevant IP rights issues.

Ballot Text

Purpose of Ballot:

This ballot clarifies the allowed HTTP status codes used for following redirects in domain validation methods 18 and 19, and specifies that the target URI must come from the final value of the Location response header.

The following motion has been proposed by Niko Carpenter of SecureTrust and endorsed by Corey Bonnell of DigiCert and Ryan Sleevi of Google.

–MOTION BEGINS–

This ballot modifies the “Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted Certificates” as defined in the following redline, based on Version 1.7.4:

https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/9672b03bec91ad9a80f826e928e47f5c1f82964b..bf726440a1da70262f1cf51c9d88d9dd0e903bf5

–MOTION ENDS–

This ballot proposes a Final Maintenance Guideline.

The procedure for approval of this ballot is as follows:

Discussion (7+ days)

Start Time: 16-April 2021 15:30 UTC

End Time: 23-April 2021 19:30 UTC

Vote for approval (7 days)

Start Time: 23-April 2021 19:30 UTC

End Time: 30-April 2021 19:30 UTC

Latest releases
Server Certificate Requirements
SC-081v3: Introduce Schedule of Reducing Validity and Data Reuse Periods - May 21, 2025

BR v2.1.5

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

S/MIME Requirements
v1.0.9 - Ballot SMC011 - May 14, 2025

This ballot allows the option to use a European Unique Identifier (EUID) as a Registration Reference in the NTR Registration Scheme. The EUID uniquely identifies officially-registered organizations, Legal Entities, and branch offices within the European Union or the European Economic Area. The EUID is specified in chapter 9 of the Annex contained in the Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1042 which describes rules for the application of Directive (EU) 2017/1132 “relating to certain aspects of company law (codification)”. The ballot also includes several editorial corrections, (e.g., reordering of References and regrouping of information from Appendix A to Section 7.1.4.2.2 (d)). This ballot is proposed by Stephen Davidson (DigiCert) and endorsed by Adrian Mueller (SwissSign) and Adriano Santoni (Actalis).

Network and Certificate System Security Requirements
v2.0 - Ballot NS-003 - Jun 26, 2024

Ballot NS-003: Restructure the NCSSRs in https://github.com/cabforum/netsec/pull/35

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