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Ballot FORUM-037 – Adopt IPR Policy v. 1.4 and Associated Documents

Ballot FORUM-037 - Adopt IPR Policy v. 1.4 and Associated Documents

Voting Results

The voting period for Forum-037 Adopt IPR Policy v1.4 and Associated Documents has completed. The ballot has: PASSED

Certificate Issuers

21 votes in total:

  • 21 voting YES: Asseco Data Systems SA (Certum), Cybertrust Japan, DigiCert, Disig, eMudhra, Fastly, GoDaddy, HARICA, iTrusChina, Japan Registry Services, MSC Trustgate Sdn Bhd, NAVER Cloud Trust Services, OISTE Foundation, SECOM Trust Systems, Sectigo, SHECA, SwissSign, Telia Company, TrustAsia, TWCA, Visa

  • 0 voting NO:

  • 0 ABSTAIN:

Certificate Consumers

3 votes in total:

  • 3 voting YES: Apple, Google, Mozilla

  • 0 voting NO:

  • 0 ABSTAIN:

Bylaws Requirements

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

This ballot will not have an IP review period.

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Server Certificate Requirements
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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
v1.0.14 - Ballot SMC016 - May 5, 2026

This ballot maintains consistency between the S/MIME Baseline Requirements and the TLS Baseline Requirements with changes introduced by Ballots SC096 and SC097. Specifically, this ballot: Creates a carve-out of the logging requirements for DNSSEC specifically, stating these are not in scope. For audit purposes, change management logging is able to confirm if the appropriate controls are in effect or not. Sunsets all remaining use of SHA-1 signatures in Certificates and CRLs. It is noted that most uses of SHA-1 signatures are already deprecated by SC097. With this ballot, all unexpired Subordinate CA Certificates issuing S/MIME containing the SHA-1 signature algorithm must be revoked. This proposal does not prohibit the use of SHA-1 to generate issuerKeyHash or issuerNameHash values as currently required by RFC 5019. Includes minor formatting corrections.

Network and Certificate System Security Requirements
Version 2.0.5 (Ballot NS-008) - Jul 9, 2025

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