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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)
  • SINAM Limited Liability Company
  • TeleTrust
  • TurkTrust
  • Wojciech Jakubowski (Private Person)
  • Zane Ma (Private Person)
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Server Certificate Requirements
SC-089: Mass Revocation Planning - Aug 26, 2025

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
v1.0.12 - Ballot SMC014 - Oct 13, 2025

This ballot introduces requirements that a Certificate Issuer MUST deploy DNSSEC validation back to the IANA DNSSEC root trust anchor on all DNS queries associated with CAA record lookups performed by the Primary Network Perspective, effective March 15, 2026. The ballot is intended to maintain consistency in the S/MIME Baseline Requirements with the requirements of Ballot SC-085 which implemented identical requirements in the TLS Baseline Requirements. Note: SC-085 also introduced requirements in TLS Baseline Requirements for the use of DNSSEC in domain control validation. These requirements are automatically adopted in the S/MIME BR by the email domain control methods that include a normative reference to section 3.2.2.4 of the TLS Baseline Requirements. The draft also includes minor corrections to web links in the text. This ballot is proposed by Stephen Davidson (DigiCert) and endorsed by Client Wilson (Apple) and Ashish Dhiman (GlobalSign).

Network and Certificate System Security Requirements
Version 2.0.5 (Ballot NS-008) - Jul 9, 2025

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