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Ballot CSC-20: Restore Version Reference to EV Guidelines

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Ballot for Review: Ballot CSC-20

Start of Review Period: October 30, 2023 at 6:00 pm Eastern Time

End of Review Period: December 1, 2023 at 6:00 pm Eastern Time

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Results of Voting

	Yes	No	Abstain
Certificate Issuers	DigiCert, eMudhra, Entrust, GlobalSign, HARICA, Sectigo
Certificate Consumers	Microsoft

This ballot has PASSED.

Purpose of the Ballot

This ballot updates the “Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted Code Signing Certificates” version 3.4 in order to restore a version reference to the Extended Validation Guidelines which was inadvertently removed in a previous version of the Requirements. In addition, a minor typographical issue is also resolved.

The following motion has been proposed by Corey Bonnell of DigiCert and endorsed by Bruce Morton of Entrust and Dimitris Zacharopoulos of HARICA.

Motion

This ballot updates the “Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted Code Signing Certificates” (“Code Signing Baseline Requirements”) based on version 3.4.

MODIFY the Code Signing Baseline Requirements as specified in the following redline: https://github.com/cabforum/code-signing/compare/93ee9976cdc4e1104952146e3556800459694874…50b40d41319ffae5fec9c9dd22ae6ebb55c34ba1

Latest releases

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

S/MIME Requirements
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