Ballot SC-088v3: DNS TXT Record with Persistent Value DCV Method
Ballot SC-088v3: DNS TXT Record with Persistent Value DCV Method
Voting Results
Certificate Issuers
26 votes in total:
- 26 voting YES: Amazon, Asseco Data Systems SA (Certum), Certigna (DHIMYOTIS), Chunghwa Telecom, Cybertrust Japan, DigiCert, Disig, D-TRUST, eMudhra, Fastly, GlobalSign, GoDaddy, HARICA, IdenTrust, iTrusChina, Japan Registry Services, OISTE Foundation, SECOM Trust Systems, Sectigo, SHECA, SSL.com, SwissSign, Telia Company, TrustAsia, TWCA, VikingCloud
- 0 voting NO:
- 0 ABSTAIN:
Certificate Consumers
3 votes in total:
- 3 voting YES: Cisco Systems, Google, Mozilla
- 0 voting NO:
- 0 ABSTAIN:
Bylaws Requirements
- Bylaw 2.3(6) requires: * In order for a ballot to be adopted by the Forum, two‐thirds (2/3) or more of the votes cast by the Voting Members in the Certificate Issuer category must be in favor of the ballot. This requirement was MET. * at least fifty percent (50%) plus one (1) of the votes cast by the Voting Members in the Certificate Consumer category must be in favor of the ballot. This requirement was MET. * At least one (1) Voting Member in each category must vote in favor of a ballot for the ballot to be adopted. This requirement was MET.
- Bylaw 2.3(7) requires: * A ballot result will be considered valid only when more than half of the number of currently active Voting Members has participated. The number of currently active Voting Members is the average number of Voting Member organizations that have participated in the previous three (3) Forum Meetings and Forum Teleconferences. * the quorum was 16 for this ballot. This requirement was MET.
Notice of Review Period
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 of 30 days is for one Final Maintenance Guidelines. The complete Draft Maintenance Guideline that is the subject of this Review Notice is attached to this email, both in red-line and changes-accepted draft format, in Word and PDF versions.
Summary of Review
Ballot for Review: SC088v3: DNS TXT Record with Persistent Value DCV Method
Start of Review Period: 2025-10-09 18:00:00 UTC End of Review Period: 2025-11-08 18:00:00 UTC
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Ballot Contents
Purpose of Ballot
The purpose of this ballot is to add section 3.2.2.4.22 “DNS TXT Record with Persistent Value” as a new domain control validation method in the Baseline Requirements for TLS Server Certificates. This method enables domain owners to establish account-scoped DNS validation records that can be reused across multiple certificate issuances, eliminating the need to update DNS records for each certificate renewal while maintaining equivalent security to existing DNS-based validation methods. Motion
The following motion has been proposed by Michael Slaughter (Amazon Trust Services) and endorsed by Chris Clements (Google Chrome), Ryan Dickson (Google Chrome), Tim Hollebeek (Digicert) and Martijn Katerbarg (Sectigo).
You can view the Github pull request representing this ballot here.
Motion Begins
MODIFY the “Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted TLS Server Certificates” (“TLS Baseline Requirements”) based on Version 2.1.7 as specified in the following redline:
https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/b6a014d4aee244c019ef6ca41667045cdbfefb81...dc7fd7f1dd586fb9e23375f2c8d4afcc7c832130
Motion Ends
This ballot proposes a Final Maintenance Guideline. The procedure for approval of this ballot is as follows: Discussion (at least 7 days)
- Start time: September 23, 2025 21:30 UTC
- End time: October 2, 2025 15:44:59 UTC
Vote for approval (7 days)
- Start time: October 2, 2025 15:45:00 UTC
- End time: October 9, 2025 15:45:00 UTC