Ballot CSC-15 – Summer 2022 Cleanup

Results of Review Period

(Mailing list post is available here.)

The IPR review period ended on September 19, 2022 and no exclusion notices were filed.

The final documents, with the effective date being 2022-09-19, are available here.

This Review Notice is sent pursuant to Section 4.1 of the CA/Browser Forum’s Intellectual Property Rights Policy (v1.3). This Review Period is for a Final Maintenance Guideline (30 day Review Period). The complete Draft Guideline subject of this Review Notice is available here.

Ballot for Review: Ballot CSC-15

Start of Review Period: 2022 08-18 at 1400 Eastern Time

End of Review Period: 2022 09-18 at 1400 Eastern Time

Please forward a written notice to exclude Essential Claims to the Working Group Chair by email to dean.coclin@digicert.com and a copy to the CA/B Forum CSCWG public mailing list cscwg-public@cabforum.org before the end of the Review Period. See current version of CA/Browser Forum Intellectual Property Rights Policy for details. (Optional form of Exclusion Notice is available at https://cabforum.org/wp-content/uploads/Template-for-Exclusion-Notice.pdf)

Results of Voting

YesNoAbstain
Certificate IssuersCertum (Asseco)
DigiCert
Entrust
GlobalSign
HARICA
Sectigo
SSL.com
SecureTrust
Certificate ConsumersMicrosoft

Purpose of the Ballot

As part of the review process for ballot CSC-14, several minor typographical and formatting errors were identified. This ballot corrects those errors; no normative changes are introduced by this ballot.

The following motion has been proposed by Corey Bonnell of DigiCert and endorsed by Ian McMillan of Microsoft and Dimitris Zacharopoulos of HARICA.

Motion

This ballot updates the “Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly‐Trusted Code Signing Certificates” version 3.0 according to this redline: https://github.com/cabforum/code-signing/compare/e345af02746bccf5d3c99506e492b5021714548a…4af5f82dcf343816eeec3ec218c1c7c818572aa7.

Check Also

2023-08-10 Minutes of the Code Signing Certificate Working Group

Attendees: Abhishek Bhat (eMudhra), Andrea Holland (VikingCloud), Ben Dewberry (Keyfactor), Brianca Martin (Amazon), Corey Bonnell …