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    Ballot SMC08: Deprecate Legacy Generation Profiles and Minor Updates
    July 15, 2024 by Stephen DavidsonThe Intellectual Property Review (IPR) period for Ballot SMC08 (Deprecate Legacy Generation Profiles and Minor Updates) has completed. No IPR Exclusion Notices were filed, and the ballot is adopted as of August 29, 2024. The new S/MIME BR v.1.0.6 have been published to the CABF public website in accordance with the Bylaws: https://cabforum.org/uploads/CA-Browser-Forum-SMIMEBR-1.0.6.pdf IPR Review of Ballot SMC08: Deprecate Legacy Generation Profiles and Minor Updates This Review Notice is sent pursuant to Section 4.1 of the CA/Browser Forum’s Intellectual Property Rights Policy (v1.3). This 30-day Review Period is for the Final Maintenance Guideline that is attached to this Review Notice.
    Ballots CSC-25 and CSC-26
    July 1, 2024 by Corey BonnellRESULTS OF REVIEW PERIOD CSC-25 Ballot CSC 25: Import EV Guidelines into the Code Signing Baseline Requirements
    Ballot SC-73: Compromised and weak keys
    June 7, 2024 by Iñigo BarreiraVoting Results Certificate Issuers 23 votes total, with no abstentions:
    Ballot CSC-24 - Timestamping Private Key Protection
    May 29, 2024 by Corey BonnellResults of Voting Yes No Abstain Certificate Issuers DigiCert, Entrust, Globalsign, HARICA, IdenTrust, Sectigo Certificate Consumers There were not enough Certificate Consumer votes to pass the ballot. Therefore, the ballot FAILS.
    Ballot SMC07: Align Logging Requirement and Key Escrow clarification
    May 24, 2024 by Stephen DavidsonThe Intellectual Property Review (IPR) period for Ballot SMC07 (Align Logging Requirement and Key Escrow clarification) has completed. No IPR Exclusion Notices were filed, and the ballot is adopted as of July 15, 2024. The new S/MIME BR v.1.0.5 have been published to the CABF public website in accordance with the Bylaws: https://cabforum.org/uploads/CA-Browser-Forum-SMIMEBR-1.0.5.pdf IPR Review of Ballot SMC07: Align Logging Requirement and Key Escrow clarification This Review Notice is sent pursuant to Section 4.1 of the CA/Browser Forum’s Intellectual Property Rights Policy (v1.3). This 30-day Review Period is for the Final Maintenance Guideline that is attached to this Review Notice.
    Ballot NS-003: Restructure the NCSSRs
    April 9, 2024 by Clint WilsonIPR Review of Ballot NS-003: Restructure the NCSSRs This Review Notice is sent pursuant to Section 4.1 of the CA/Browser Forum’s Intellectual Property Rights Policy (v1.3). This Review Period of 30 days is for one Final Maintenance Guidelines. The complete Draft Maintenance Guideline that is the subject of this Review Notice is:
    Ballot CSC-23 - Marking the EV Code Signing Guidelines SUPERCEDED
    March 26, 2024 by Corey BonnellThe final documents, with the effective date being 2024-03-26, are available here. Results of Voting Yes No Abstain Certificate Issuers Actalis, Asseco (Certum), DigiCert, Entrust, Globalsign, HARICA, IdenTrust, Sectigo, SSL.com Certificate Consumers Microsoft Purpose of the Ballot As agreed at the F2F#61 meeting, this is a ballot to mark the “Guidelines For The Issuance And Management Of Extended Validation Code Signing Certificates” as superceded.
    Ballot SMC06: Post implementation clarification and corrections
    March 26, 2024 by Stephen DavidsonThe Intellectual Property Review (IPR) period for Ballot SMC06 (Post implementation clarification and corrections) has completed. No IPR Exclusion Notices were filed, and the ballot is adopted as of May 11, 2024. The new S/MIME BR v.1.0.4 have been published to the CABF public website in accordance with the Bylaws: https://cabforum.org/uploads/CA-Browser-Forum-SMIMEBR-1.0.4.pdf IPR Review of Ballot SMC06: Post implementation clarification and corrections This Review Notice is sent pursuant to Section 4.1 of the CA/Browser Forum’s Intellectual Property Rights Policy (v1.3). This 30-day Review Period is for the Final Maintenance Guideline that is attached to this Review Notice.
    Ballot SC-65v2: Convert EVGs into RFC 3647 format
    March 15, 2024 by Iñigo BarreiraVoting Results Certificate Issuers 23 votes total, with no abstentions:
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