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S/MIME Certificate Working Group Ballots

Ballots by Status

Voting Period

There are no ballots with the status "Voting Period" in the S/MIME Certificate Working Group

IPR Review Period

There are no ballots with the status "IPR Review" in the S/MIME Certificate Working Group

Discussion Period

There are no ballots with the status "Discussion Period" in the S/MIME Certificate Working Group

Draft / Under Consideration

There are no ballots with the status "New" in the S/MIME Certificate Working Group
There are no ballots with the status "Pre-Ballot" in the S/MIME Certificate Working Group

Passed

  • SMC014: DNSSEC for S/MIME
  • SMC013: Enable PQC Algorithms for S/MIME
  • SMC012: Introduce ACME for S/MIME
  • SMC011: Add EUID as Registration Reference
  • SMC010: Introduction of Multi-Perspective Issuance Corroboration
  • Forum-33: Election of CA/Browser S/MIME Certificate WG Vice Chair
  • SMC09: Pre-Linting, WebTrust for NetSec, and Minor Updates
  • Election Ballot Forum-27: Election of CA/B Forum S/MIME Certificate WG Chair
  • SMC08: Deprecate Legacy Generation Profiles and Minor Updates
  • SMC07: Align Logging Requirement and Key Escrow clarification
  • SMC06: Post implementation clarification and corrections
  • SMC05: Adoption of CAA for S/MIME
  • SMC04: Addition of ETSI TS 119 411-6 to audit standards
  • SMC03: Corrections and clarifications for “S/MIME Baseline Requirements”
  • SMC01: Final Guideline for “S/MIME Baseline Requirements"
  • SMC02: Confirmation Ballot for Vice Chair
  • SMCWG Chair Election / 2022

Cancelled

There are no ballots with the status "Cancelled" in the S/MIME Certificate Working Group

Failed

There are no ballots with the status "Ballot Failed" in the S/MIME Certificate Working Group

Information about Ballots

Latest releases
Server Certificate Requirements
SC-089: Mass Revocation Planning - Aug 26, 2025

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
v1.0.12 - Ballot SMC014 - Oct 13, 2025

This ballot introduces requirements that a Certificate Issuer MUST deploy DNSSEC validation back to the IANA DNSSEC root trust anchor on all DNS queries associated with CAA record lookups performed by the Primary Network Perspective, effective March 15, 2026. The ballot is intended to maintain consistency in the S/MIME Baseline Requirements with the requirements of Ballot SC-085 which implemented identical requirements in the TLS Baseline Requirements. Note: SC-085 also introduced requirements in TLS Baseline Requirements for the use of DNSSEC in domain control validation. These requirements are automatically adopted in the S/MIME BR by the email domain control methods that include a normative reference to section 3.2.2.4 of the TLS Baseline Requirements. The draft also includes minor corrections to web links in the text. This ballot is proposed by Stephen Davidson (DigiCert) and endorsed by Client Wilson (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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