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2021-07-08 Minutes of the CA/Browser Forum Teleconference

Attendees

Adrian Mueller (SwissSign), Ali Gholami (Telia), Ben Wilson (Mozilla), Bruce Morton (Entrust), Chris McMillan (Visa), Clint Wilson (Apple), Corey Bonnell (Digicert), Dean Coclin (Digicert), Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA), Doug Beattie (GlobalSign), Enrico Entschew (D-TRUST), Inaba Atsushi (GlobalSign), Johnny Reading (GoDaddy), Jos Purvis (Cisco Systems), Karina Sirota (Microsoft), Kati Davids (GoDaddy), Michelle Coon (OATI), Mike Reilly (Microsoft), Neil Dunbar (TrustCor Systems), Niko Carpenter (SecureTrust), Paul van Brouwershaven (Entrust), Rebecca Kelley (Apple), Ryan Sleevi (Google), Sebastian Schulz (GlobalSign), Shelley Brewer (Digicert), Stephen Davidson (Digicert), Tadahiko Ito (SECOM Trust Systems), Tim Hollebeek (Digicert), Tobias Josefowitz (Opera Software AS), Vijayakumar (Vijay) Manjunatha (eMudhra), Wayne Thayer (Mozilla), Wendy Brown (US Federal PKI Management Authority), Tyler Myers (GoDaddy), Fumihiko Yoneda (Japan Registry Services), Yoshiro Yoneya (Japan Registry Services)

Opening Procedures – Dean

  • Roll Call
  • Read Antitrust Statement
  • Review Agenda
  • Approval of minutes of last call
    • Approved
  • Introduction of new members

Forum Infrastructure Subcommittee update given by Jos

  • No call was initiated, should review co-hosts.
  • Infrastructure sub-committee should talk about calendars in the next call. No other discussion.

Code Signing Certificate Working Group update given by Bruce

Discussed signing services and question about sub-committee, but high level discussion overall. Will go back to the group to discuss further

SMIME working group update given by Stephen

  • Laid out 4 types of email certificates. The goal is to get the entire S/MIME certs in to an auditable certificate profile ASAP.
  • The decision making on documents is cumulative, so it’ll show up later in different areas.
  • One of the biggest issues is on the validation types, since that will be different from current ballots and will be adopted from the existing CA/b Forum standards. Does adopting EV validation mean that it will go through to the profile
  • GlobalTrust (E-commerce monitoring) has joined as a certificate member, which means there are 28 members
    • Dean: they need to go through addition steps. They will work offline.

Fall F2F dates

  • Please check calendars. A poll will go out shortly.
  • End of October there is a conflict ICANN and WS#. Dean- it won’t be that late.
  • Potential Conflicts with CA Days. People can post conflicts on a conference page on Wiki. Dimitris will share this.
  • Dean to suggest week of October 4 or week of October 11.

Any Other Business:

None

Next call: July 22

Latest releases
Code Signing Requirements
v3.8 - Aug 5, 2024

What’s Changed

Full Changelog: https://github.com/cabforum/code-signing/compare/v3.7...v3.8

S/MIME Requirements
v1.0.6 - Ballot SMC08 - Aug 29, 2024

This ballot sets a date by which issuance of certificates following the Legacy generation profiles must cease. It also includes the following minor updates:

  • Pins the domain validation procedures to v 2.0.5 of the TLS Baseline Requirements while the ballot activity for multi-perspective validation is concluded, and the SMCWG determines its corresponding course of action;
  • Updates the reference for SmtpUTF8Mailbox from RFC 8398 to RFC 9598; and
  • Small text corrections in the Reference section

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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