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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.

Current Interested Parties at the Forum level

  • AGMS Information Technology Solutions
  • Andrea Fossati
  • Andrew Ayer
  • Arno Fiedler
  • Certizen Limited
  • Cloudflare
  • Deloitte LLP
  • EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
  • Envers
  • ICANN
  • India PKI Forum
  • Insta Advance OY
  • Intel
  • KPMG AG
  • KPMG Korea
  • K Software LLC
  • Leader Telecom BV
  • Maria Merkel (Private Person)
  • Nathalie Weiler (Private Person)
  • Peercraft
  • PSW
  • Schellman and Company LLC
  • TeleTrust
  • TurkTrust
  • Zane Ma (Private Person)
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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