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Information for Interested Parties

The role of the Interested Party in CA/B Forum activities is described in Section 3.2 of the Bylaws. An Interested Party may post to a Forum Working Group’s public mailing list and participate in teleconferences to which they are invited by the Working Group Chair related to their area of expertise or to the subject of their working group participation.

Individual persons and entities (e.g. companies) may become Interested Parties.

In order to participate as an Interested Party in the Forum / Working Group, you need to:

  1. Review the Intellectual Property Rights policy and complete the IPR agreement found there. If applying as an entity, the IPR Policy Agreement MUST be signed by a representative that is authorized to bind the entity to the agreement.

  2. Send an email to questions@cabforum.org with your name, organization (if applicable), contact details and the signed IPR agreement with the subject: Participation as an Interested Party in the [Working Group Name] Working Group. Be sure to specify the name(s) of the working group(s) that you would like to participate in.

Current Interested Parties at the Forum level

  • AGMS Information Technology Solutions
  • Andrea Fossati
  • Andrew Ayer
  • Arno Fiedler
  • CERT-EE
  • Certizen Limited
  • Cloudflare
  • Deloitte LLP
  • EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
  • Envers
  • ICANN
  • India PKI Forum
  • Insta Advance OY
  • Intel
  • KPMG AG
  • KPMG Korea
  • KPMG Taiwan
  • K Software LLC
  • Leader Telecom BV
  • Maria Merkel (Private Person)
  • Nathalie Weiler (Private Person)
  • Peercraft
  • PSW
  • Ryan Hurst (Private Person)
  • Schellman and Company LLC
  • Sergey Pavlovskiy (Private Person)
  • TeleTrust
  • TurkTrust
  • Wojciech Jakubowski (Private Person)
  • Zane Ma (Private Person)
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
v1.0.9 - Ballot SMC011 - May 14, 2025

This ballot allows the option to use a European Unique Identifier (EUID) as a Registration Reference in the NTR Registration Scheme. The EUID uniquely identifies officially-registered organizations, Legal Entities, and branch offices within the European Union or the European Economic Area. The EUID is specified in chapter 9 of the Annex contained in the Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1042 which describes rules for the application of Directive (EU) 2017/1132 “relating to certain aspects of company law (codification)”. The ballot also includes several editorial corrections, (e.g., reordering of References and regrouping of information from Appendix A to Section 7.1.4.2.2 (d)). This ballot is proposed by Stephen Davidson (DigiCert) and endorsed by Adrian Mueller (SwissSign) and Adriano Santoni (Actalis).

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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