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2025-04-24 Minutes of the Server Certificate Working Group

1. Roll Call and Housekeeping

  • Meeting called to order by Dimitris Zacharopoulos.
  • Tom to take minutes; recording sent to him.

Attendees:

Aaron Gable (Let’s Encrypt), Aaron Poulsen (Amazon), Ben Wilson (Mozilla), Bruce Morton (Entrust), Chad Dandar (Cisco Systems), Chris Clements (Google), Clint Wilson (Apple), Corey Bonnell (DigiCert), Corey Rasmussen (OATI), Cynethia Brown (US Federal PKI Management Authority), Dean Coclin (DigiCert), Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA), Doug Beattie (GlobalSign), Enrico Entschew (D-TRUST), Gregory Tomko (GlobalSign), Inaba Atsushi (GlobalSign), Iñigo Barreira (Sectigo), Iori Kondo (Cybertrust Japan), Jaime Hablutzel (OISTE Foundation), Janet Hines (VikingCloud), Jeanette Snook (Visa), Ji Eun Seong (MOIS (Ministry of Interior and Safety) of the republic of Korea), Johnny Reading (GoDaddy), Josselin Allemandou (Certigna (DHIMYOTIS)), Jun Okura (Cybertrust Japan), Kateryna Aleksieieva (Asseco Data Systems SA (Certum)), Kate Xu (TrustAsia), Kiran Tummala (Microsoft), Li-Chun Chen (Chunghwa Telecom), Lilia Dubko (CPA Canada/WebTrust), Llew Curran (GoDaddy), Lucy Buecking (IdenTrust), Mads Henriksveen (Buypass AS), Martijn Katerbarg (Sectigo), Masaru Sakamoto (Cybertrust Japan), Michelle Coon (OATI), Nargis Mannan (VikingCloud), Nate Smith (GoDaddy), Nicol So (CommScope), Nome Huang (TrustAsia), Ono Fumiaki (SECOM Trust Systems), Peter Miskovic (Disig), Rollin Yu (TrustAsia), Ryan Dickson (Google), Sandy Balzer (SwissSign), Scott Rea (eMudhra), Sissel Hoel (Buypass AS), Sooyoung Eo (NAVER Cloud Trust Services), Stephen Davidson (DigiCert), Steven Deitte (GoDaddy), Tadahiko Ito (SECOM Trust Systems), Tim Callan (Sectigo), Tobias Josefowitz (Opera Software AS), Tsung-Min Kuo (Chunghwa Telecom), Wayne Thayer (Fastly), Wendy Brown (US Federal PKI Management Authority), Yamian Quintero (Microsoft).

Read Note-well

Dimitris Zacharopoulos read the note well

Review Agenda

Topics:

  1. Begin Recording - Roll Call
  2. Read note-well
  3. Review of Agenda
  4. Minutes approval

a. April 10, 2025 Teleconference (Draft minutes have not been distributed yet)

b. F2F#64 SCWG Meeting (Draft minutes were distributed 2025-04-22)

  1. Membership applications

a. Antony Vennard (Interested Party, as an individual)

b. Ganesh Mallaya (Interested Party, as an individual)

  1. Emails to Questions and questions on GitHub regarding Certificate validity period
  2. Ballot Status – see list below
  3. Any Other Business
  4. Next call: April 24, 2025
  5. Adjourn

Approval of Minutes

a. April 10 minutes are not available for review.

b. Face-to-Face minutes distributed April 22; Ryan asked for more time to review the minutes on Chrome’s behalf; deffered to the next meeting.

  • Discussion on draft minutes process by Dimitris to be added as AOB; Mads was concered that he and a colleague were left off the attendance list; Dimitris asked for anyone missing from the list to submit an email to him.
  • Ben suggested discussing different processes for F2F draft minutes as an AOB topic; Corey agrees that a holistic discussion would be beneficial - topic added to agenda of next meeting.

Membership applications

a. Antony Vennard - no objections

b. Ganesh Mallaya - no objections

Both applications approved and individuals to be added to lists

Questions on SC-081

  • How to treat continuted comments on the ballot after it has been approved?
  • No new topics, but allows community to make their sentiment known
  • There is a “lock conversation” button to restrict new comments on the pull request
  • After the IPR period a message can be added to the request to send comments to the CA/B F Questions List
  • Suggested to move the discussion to the Infrastructure SC to work on proposal for consistant policy in all repositories
  • Forum policy is to respond to all questions sent to the Questions List; statements/comments do not require a response

Status of Ballots

a. SC085: Require DNSSEC for CAA and DCV Lookups (Henry, Clint)

  • settled on final language and ready to move into a discussion period, soon.
  • Dimitris suggested a delayed effective date because of the complexity of the ballot; Corey agrees

b. SC086: Sunset the Inclusion of Address and Routing Parameter Area Names (Corey)

  • Ballot is ready to go, but waiting on approval of ballot language by both endorsers
  • Ballot adds definitions and cleans up some previous language

c. SC0XX: Process RFC 8657 CAA Parameters (Wayne)

  • No new updates; delaying the ballot until after the DNSSEC ballot is approved to handle dependencies

d. SC0XX: CA Assisted Domain Validation (Slaughter)

  • Slaughter is not on the call; no discussion

e. Other ballots

  • Clint has sights on embedding domain validation methods into certificates; will focus on this topic after SC-085 finishes; link to GitHub in chat
  • Corey started a ballot on clearing registration language on EV Certs and has endorsers; will add to the wiki

Any Other Business

-no other topics

Next call

May 8, 2025

Adjourn

Meeting adjourned.

Latest releases
Server Certificate Requirements
SC-084: DNS Labeled With ACME Account ID Challenge (#566) - Mar 13, 2025

BRs release version 2.1.4

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
v1.0.8 - Ballot SMC010 - Dec 23, 2024

This ballot adopts Multi-Perspective Issuance Corroboration (MPIC) for CAs when conducting Email Domain Control Validation (DCV) and Certification Authority Authorization (CAA) checks for S/MIME Certificates. The Ballot adopts the MPIC implementation consistent with the TLS Baseline Requirements. Acknowledging that some S/MIME CAs with no TLS operations may require additional time to deploy MPIC, the Ballot has a Compliance Date of May 15, 2025. Following that date the implementation timeline described in TLS BR section 3.2.2.9 applies. This ballot is proposed by Stephen Davidson (DigiCert) and endorsed by Ashish Dhiman (GlobalSign) and Nicolas Lidzborski (Google).

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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