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Ballot SMC05: Adoption of CAA for S/MIME Purpose of Ballot: The ballot proposes changes to the S/MIME Baseline Requirements to introduce the use of Certification Authority Authorization (CAA) Processing for Email Addresses as defined in RFC 9495. It also includes minor typographic corrections. The following motion has been proposed by Corey Bonnell of DigiCert and endorsed by Dimitris Zacharopoulos of …

Minutes of SMCWG December 20, 2023 These are the Approved Minutes of the meeting described in the subject of this message. Corrections and clarifications where needed are encouraged by reply. Attendees Ashish Dhiman – (GlobalSign), Ben Wilson – (Mozilla), Bruce Morton – (Entrust), Cade Cairns – (Google), Corey Bonnell – (DigiCert), Dimitris Zacharopoulos – (HARICA), Don Sheehy – (CPA Canada/WebTrust), …

The Intellectual Property Review (IPR) period for Ballot SMC04 (Addition of ETSI TS 119 411-6 to audit standards) has completed. No IPR Exclusion Notices were filed, and the ballot is adopted as of December 8, 2023. The new S/MIME BR have also been published to the CABF public website in accordance with the Bylaws. – Intellectual Property Review: Notice of Review Period …

Server Cert Working Group Date: October 4, 2023 Minute Taker: Kiran Tummala (Microsoft)     Revocation:   The current rules in place were established about a decade ago, and much has changed since then, especially in terms of certificate volumes and crt.sh. Often, revocation appears to be a cosmetic issue, and there’s a sense that it does a disservice to …

Attendance Aaron Poulsen – (Amazon), Abhishek Bhat – (eMudhra), Adam Jones – (Microsoft), Andrea Holland – (VikingCloud), Ben Wilson – (Mozilla), Brianca Martin – (Amazon), Brittany Randall – (GoDaddy), Clint Wilson – (Apple), Corey Bonnell – (DigiCert), Corey Rasmussen – (OATI), Dimitris Zacharopoulos – (HARICA), Doug Beattie – (GlobalSign), Dustin Hollenback – (Microsoft), Eva Vansteenberge – (GlobalSign), Inaba Atsushi – …

Attendance Aaron Gable (Let’s Encrypt), Aaron Poulsen (Amazon), Abhishek Bhat (eMudhra), Adam Clark (Visa), Adam Jones (Microsoft), Adrian Mueller (SwissSign), Andrea Holland (VikingCloud), Ben Wilson (Mozilla), Bilal Ashraf (SSL.com), Brianca Martin (Amazon), Bruce Morton (Entrust), Clint Wilson (Apple), Corey Bonnell (DigiCert), Corey Rasmussen (OATI), Daryn Wright (GoDaddy), Dean Coclin (DigiCert), Dustin Hollenback (Microsoft), Fumi Yoneda (Japan Registry Services), Hannah Sokol …

Minutes of SMCWG December 6, 2023 These are the Approved Minutes of the meeting described in the subject of this message. Corrections and clarifications where needed are encouraged by reply. Attendees Adrian Mueller – (SwissSign), Alison Wang – (TrustAsia), Andrea Holland – (VikingCloud), Andreas Henschel – (D-TRUST), Ashish Dhiman – (GlobalSign), Ben Wilson – (Mozilla), Bruce Morton – (Entrust), Cade …

Validation Subcommittee Date: October 4, 2023 Minute Taker: Clint Wilson (Apple) Validation WG Chair: Corey Bonnell (DigiCert)   Prior Meeting Minutes approved Agenda:      Report on validation-sc progress since F2F #59 (5 minutes)   Presentation of results from the domain validation threat modeling tiger team (1 hour to 1 hour and 15 minutes, led by Michael @ ATS)   Presentation …

Voting Results Certificate Issuers 24 votes total, with no abstentions: 24 Issuers voting YES: Actalis, Amazon, Buypass, Chunghwa Telecom, D-Trust, Digicert, Disig, eMudhra, Entrust, Fastly, GDCA, Globalsign, GoDaddy, HARICA, iTrusChina, Izenpe, JPRS, LE, OISTE, SECOM, Sectigo, SSL.com, Swisssign and Telia 0 Issuers voting NO 0 Issuers ABSTAIN Certificate Consumers 4 votes total, with no abstentions: 4 Consumers voting YES: Google, …

Attendees Andrea Holland – (VikingCloud), Ben Dewberry – (Keyfactor), Brianca Martin – (Amazon), Bruce Morton – (Entrust), Corey Bonnell – (DigiCert), Dimitris Zacharopoulos – (HARICA), Eva Vansteenberge – (GlobalSign), Ian McMillan – (Microsoft), Inaba Atsushi – (GlobalSign), Inigo Barreira – (Sectigo), Janet Hines – (VikingCloud), Martijn Katerbarg – (Sectigo), Mohit Kumar – (GlobalSign), Richard Kisley – (IBM), Roberto Quionones – …