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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

SMC011: Add EUID as Registration Reference

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

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-084: DNS Labeled With ACME Account ID Challenge (#566) - Mar 13, 2025

BRs release version 2.1.4

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
v1.0.8 - Ballot SMC010 - Dec 23, 2024

This ballot adopts Multi-Perspective Issuance Corroboration (MPIC) for CAs when conducting Email Domain Control Validation (DCV) and Certification Authority Authorization (CAA) checks for S/MIME Certificates. The Ballot adopts the MPIC implementation consistent with the TLS Baseline Requirements. Acknowledging that some S/MIME CAs with no TLS operations may require additional time to deploy MPIC, the Ballot has a Compliance Date of May 15, 2025. Following that date the implementation timeline described in TLS BR section 3.2.2.9 applies. This ballot is proposed by Stephen Davidson (DigiCert) and endorsed by Ashish Dhiman (GlobalSign) and Nicolas Lidzborski (Google).

Network and Certificate System Security Requirements
v2.0 - Ballot NS-003 - Jun 26, 2024

Ballot NS-003: Restructure the NCSSRs in https://github.com/cabforum/netsec/pull/35