CA/Browser Forum

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

  • SMC013: Enable PQC Algorithms for S/MIME

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

  • 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-081v3: Introduce Schedule of Reducing Validity and Data Reuse Periods - May 21, 2025

BR v2.1.5

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
v1.0.10 - Ballot SMC012 - Jul 2, 2025

Introduces a new method for validation of mailbox control, using ACME for S/MIME as defined in RFC 8823: Extensions to Automatic Certificate Management Environment for End-User S/MIME Certificates.

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

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