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The CA/Browser Forum has several public mailing lists, intended to be used for normal CA/Browser Forum discussions.

They are:

The activity on these lists can be followed by the public, but not posted to, unless they are an Interested Party. An Interested Party must review and accept the Forum’s IPR Policy and submit the signed IPR Policy Agreement (CAB Forum Agreement for IPR Policy v.1.3) to the CA/Browser Forum Chair.

Questions from the public may be submitted by email to the Questions list at questions@cabforum.org.

We also maintain other email lists, including the following:

Latest releases
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
v1.0.6 - Ballot SMC08 - Aug 29, 2024

This ballot sets a date by which issuance of certificates following the Legacy generation profiles must cease. It also includes the following minor updates: Pins the domain validation procedures to v 2.0.5 of the TLS Baseline Requirements while the ballot activity for multi-perspective validation is concluded, and the SMCWG determines its corresponding course of action; Updates the reference for SmtpUTF8Mailbox from RFC 8398 to RFC 9598; and Small text corrections in the Reference section

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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