Ballot CSC-20: Restore Version Reference to EV Guidelines
Ballot CSC-20: Restore Version Reference to EV Guidelines
Notice of Review Period
The IPR review period ended on December 7, 2023 and no exclusion notices were filed.
The final documents, with the effective date being 2023-12-07, 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). A complete Draft Guideline subject of this Review Notice is available here.
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