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Voting Period

  • SMC012: Introduce ACME for S/MIME

IPR Review Period

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Discussion Period

  • SC068: Sunset the Inclusion of Address and Routing Parameter Area Names
  • SC085: Require DNSSEC for CAA and DCV Lookups

Draft / Under Consideration

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Passed

  • SC081v3: Introduce Schedule of Reducing Validity and Data Reuse Periods
  • SMC011: Add EUID as Registration Reference
  • NS-007: Extend deadline to implement NSRv2
  • SC084: DNS Labeled with ACME Account ID Validation Method
  • SC083: Winter 2024-2025 Cleanup Ballot
  • NS-004: "Updating Section 4 - Vulnerability Management - of the NCSSRs"
  • SMC010: Introduction of Multi-Perspective Issuance Corroboration
  • SC080v3: Sunset the use of WHOIS to identify Domain Contacts and relying DCV Methods
  • NS-006: Fix 1.2.2 encrypted connections scoping
  • Forum-31: Election of CA/Browser Network Security WG Vice Chair
  • Forum-33: Election of CA/Browser S/MIME Certificate WG Vice Chair
  • Forum-30: Election of CA/Browser Forum Vice Chair
  • Forum-32: Election of CA/Browser Code Signing Certificate WG Vice Chair
  • NS-005: Clarifications to sections 1, 2 and a definition prior to NS-003 taking effect
  • SMC09: Pre-Linting, WebTrust for NetSec, and Minor Updates
  • SC079v2: Allow more than one Certificate Policy in a Cross-Certified Subordinate CA Certificate
  • SC076v2: Clarify and Improve OCSP Requirements
  • FORUM-28: Extend Duration of Forum IPR Subcommittee
  • SC078: Subject organizationName alignment for DBA / Assumed Name
  • Election Ballot Forum-27: Election of CA/B Forum S/MIME Certificate WG Chair
  • Election ballot Forum-26: Election of CA/Browser Code Signing Certificate WG Chair
  • SC077: Update WebTrust Audit name in Section 8.4 and References
  • SMC08: Deprecate Legacy Generation Profiles and Minor Updates
  • CSC-26 Timestamping Private Key Protection
  • SC075: Pre-sign linting
  • CSC-25 Import EV Guidelines into CS BRs
  • SMC07: Align Logging Requirement and Key Escrow clarification
  • FORUM-022: Establish Forum IPR Subcommittee
  • SC073: Compromised and Weak Keys
  • NS-003: Restructure the NCSSRs
  • FORUM-021: Forum Definitions and Glossary WG
  • SMC06: Post implementation clarification and corrections
  • CSC-23 Marking the EV Code Signing Guidelines SUPERCEDED
  • SC068: Allow VATEL and VATXI for organizationIdentifier
  • SC067: Require Multi-Perspective Issuance Corroboration
  • SC069: Clarify router and firewall logging requirements
  • SC065: Convert EVGs into RFC3647 format
  • SMC05: Adoption of CAA for S/MIME
  • CSC-22 High Risk Requirements Update
  • FORUM-020: Amend Code Signing Certificate Working Group Charter
  • FORUM-019: Amend Server Certificate Working Group Charter
  • SC063: Make OCSP optional, require CRLs and incentivize automation
  • SC064: Temporary Moratorium on New Certificate Consumer Memberships
  • SC066v4: Fall 2023 clean-up
  • SMC04: Addition of ETSI TS 119 411-6 to audit standards
  • CSC-21 Signing Service Update
  • CSC-20 Restore version reference to EV Guidelines
  • CSC 19 - Remove SSL BR References
  • FORUM-18 Update Bylaws to version 2.5
  • SMC03: Corrections and clarifications for “S/MIME Baseline Requirements”
  • SC062: Certificate profiles update
  • SC061: New CRL Entries must have a Revocation Reason Code
  • SC058: require distributionPoint in sharded CRLs
  • SC056: 2022 Cleanup
  • SMC01: Final Guideline for “S/MIME Baseline Requirements"
  • SMC02: Confirmation Ballot for Vice Chair
  • SMCWG Chair Election / 2022

Cancelled

  • SC071: Subscriber Agreement and Terms of Use Consolidation
  • SC076: Clarify and Improve OCSP Requirements

Failed

  • CSC-029: 2025-03 SCWG alignment ballot
  • SC082: Clarify CA Assisted DNS Validation under 3.2.2.4.7
  • CSC-24 Timestamping Private Key Protection
  • SC074: Clarify CP/CPS structure according to RFC 3647
  • SC070: Clarify the use of DTPs for Domain Control Validation
  • SC059: Weak key guidance
  • SC060: Membership of ZT Browser

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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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