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Network Security Working Group Ballots

Ballots by Status

Voting Period

  • NS-010 v2: Restructure Requirements Sections, Remove Expired Effective Dates, and Update NIST Reference

IPR Review Period

There are no ballots with the status "IPR Review" in the Network Security Working Group

Discussion Period

There are no ballots with the status "Discussion Period" in the Network Security Working Group

Draft / Under Consideration

There are no ballots with the status "New" in the Network Security Working Group
There are no ballots with the status "Pre-Ballot" in the Network Security Working Group

Passed

  • NS-008v3: Updates to CA Infrastructure Scope, Trusted Roles, Systems' Applicability, and various other improvements
  • NS-007: Extend deadline to implement NSRv2
  • NS-004: "Updating Section 4 - Vulnerability Management - of the NCSSRs"
  • NS-006: Fix 1.2.2 encrypted connections scoping
  • Forum-31: Election of CA/Browser Network Security WG Vice Chair
  • NS-005: Clarifications to sections 1, 2 and a definition prior to NS-003 taking effect
  • NS-003: Restructure the NCSSRs

Cancelled

  • NS-010 / TEST

Failed

There are no ballots with the status "Ballot Failed" in the Network Security Working Group

Information about Ballots

Latest releases
Server Certificate Requirements
SC100: DNSSEC Clarification and Consolidation - Sep 7, 2026

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
v1.0.16 - Ballot SMC018 - Sep 29, 2026

This ballot implements the requirements of CCADB Policy Section 6.3 relating to cross-certificates into the S/MIME BR effective immediately. The ballot also specifies that effective July 1, 2027 id-kp-emailProtection (mandatory) and the id-kp-clientAuth (optional) are the only extKeyUsage (EKU) permitted in both Subordinate CA Certificates and Subscriber Certificates. Finally, the ballot clarifies in the Definitions that Legacy Generation profiles were deprecated effective July 15, 2025. This ballot is proposed by Stephen Davidson (DigiCert) and endorsed by Dustin Hollinback (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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