CA/Browser Forum

S/MIME Certificate Working Group Ballots

Ballots by Status

Voting Period

  • Ballot SMC020: Remove requirement to record BR version of validation method

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

  • SMC018: Realignment of Multipurpose use cases
  • SMC016: Equivalence with Ballots SC096 and SC097
  • 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

  • Ballot SMC017: Increase Minimum RSA CA Key Size

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
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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