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Associate Members

The CA/Browser Forum enters into liaison / associate member relationships with a number of organizations who have been determined will work collaboratively with the Forum. These include the CPA Canada WebTrust Task Force, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), tScheme, the U.S. Federal PKI, and CAs applying for membership, but not fully qualified.

Participation as an Associate Member is by invitation only.

Current Associate Members include:

ACAB Council
CertiPath
CPA Canada/WebTrust
DarkMatter
ETSI
Keyfactor
tScheme
US Federal PKI Management Authority
Zone Media

Latest releases

Server Certificate Requirements
SC-081v3: Introduce Schedule of Reducing Validity and Data Reuse Periods - May 21, 2025

BR v2.1.5

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
v1.0.10 - Ballot SMC012 - Jul 2, 2025

Introduces a new method for validation of mailbox control, using ACME for S/MIME as defined in RFC 8823: Extensions to Automatic Certificate Management Environment for End-User S/MIME Certificates.

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