Baseline Requirements

This document explains the changes to Certification Authority support for internal server names and reserved IP dddresses and the reasons behind the new rules that were introduced in the Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly Trusted Certificates, Version 1.0 that took effect effect on July 1, 2012: Guidance on the Deprecation of Internal Server Names and Reserved …

irst industry-wide standard for the issuance and management of SSL/TLS digital certificates DOWNLOAD THE DOCUMENT   The CA/Browser Forum has released the “Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly Trusted Certificates,” the first international baseline standard for the operation of Certification Authorities (CAs) issuing SSL/TLS digital certificates natively trusted in browser software. SSL/TLS digital certificates are used to …

Ballot 62 – Adopt Baseline Requirements Draft 50 (Passed) Motion Ben Wilson made the following motion, and Bruce Morton and Eddy Nigg endorsed it: Motion begins The CA/Browser Forum adopts the “Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted Certificates” Draft 50 (available here: https://cabforum.org/wiki/Baseline%20Draft%2050%20Versions ) as Version 1.0 and sets an Effective Date of 1 July 2012. It …