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2024-07-17 Minutes of the S/MIME Certificate Working Group
July 17, 2024 by Stephen DavidsonMinutes of SMCWG July 17, 2024 These are the Approved Minutes of the meeting described in the subject of this message. Corrections and clarifications where needed are encouraged by reply. Attendees Adrian Mueller - (SwissSign), Andreas Henschel - (D-TRUST), Ashish Dhiman - (GlobalSign), Ben Wilson - (Mozilla), Bruce Morton - (Entrust), Inaba Atsushi - (GlobalSign), Jaime Hablutzel - (OISTE Foundation), Janet Hines - (VikingCloud), Jozef Nigut - (Disig), Judith Spencer - (CertiPath), Malcolm Idaho - (IdenTrust), Marco Schambach - (IdenTrust), Martijn Katerbarg - (Sectigo), Nome Huang - (TrustAsia), Rebecca Kelly - (SSL.
Ballot SMC08: Deprecate Legacy Generation Profiles and Minor Updates
July 15, 2024 by Stephen DavidsonIPR Review of Ballot SMC08: Deprecate Legacy Generation Profiles and Minor Updates This Review Notice is sent pursuant to Section 4.1 of the CA/Browser Forum’s Intellectual Property Rights Policy (v1.3). This 30-day Review Period is for the Final Maintenance Guideline that is attached to this Review Notice. Ballot for Review: Ballot SMC08, redline at https://cabforum.org/posts/2024/2024-07-15-SMCWG-ballot-SMC08/CA-Browser-Forum-SMIMEBR-1.0.6-redline.pdf Start of Review Period: July 29, 2024 End of Review Period: 2359 UTC on August 28, 2024
Ballots CSC-25 and CSC-26
July 1, 2024 by Corey BonnellNOTICE OF REVIEW PERIOD CSC-25 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 available here. Summary of Review Ballot for Review: Ballot CSC-25 Start of Review Period: July 1st, 2024 at 2:00 PM UTC End of Review Period: August 1, 2024 at 2:00 PM UTC
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Latest releases
Code Signing Requirements
v3.7 - Mar 4, 2024

S/MIME Requirements
v1.0.5 - Ballot SMC07 - Jul 15, 2024

Ballot SMC07: Align Logging Requirement and Key Escrow clarification

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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The Certification Authority Browser Forum (CA/Browser Forum) is a voluntary gathering of Certificate Issuers and suppliers of Internet browser software and other applications that use certificates (Certificate Consumers).