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Voting Period

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

IPR Review Period

SMC016: Equivalence with Ballots SC096 and SC097

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

SMC015v2: Allow mDL for Authentication of Individual Identity
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
SC095v3: Clean-up 2025 - Apr 2, 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
v1.0.13 - Ballot SMC015v2 - Mar 28, 2026

This ballot introduces requirements that a CA or RA must follow to rely upon a Mobile Drivers License (mDL) to provide evidence for the authentication of individual identity. It allows the use of mDL that conform to ISO/IEC 18013-5 and which may be verified by the CA or RA in conformance with ISO/IEC 18013-7. The CA or RA shall only accept mDL from an Issuing Authority that is legally authorized by the relevant government or jurisdiction to issue driving licenses. The draft also aligns the subsections of 3.2.4.2 (Validation of individual identity) to correspond more closely with those in 3.2.4.1 (Attribute collection of individual identity). It also includes minor editorial corrections. SMC015v2 was updated to remove an additional reference to the superceded ETSI EN 319 403. This ballot is proposed by Stephen Davidson (DigiCert) and endorsed by Ben Wilson (Mozilla) and Scott Rea (eMudhra).

Network and Certificate System Security Requirements
Version 2.0.5 (Ballot NS-008) - Jul 9, 2025