In my personal opinion, a periodic re-affirmation that the CPS/CP is still current seems a minimal bar for inclusion in any trust list regardless of the certificate type.
Ryan Hurst On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 8:32 AM Ben Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > All, > > The purpose of this thread is to discuss changing the period of time > required for updating CPs and CPSes (in item 4 of Section 3.3 of the > Mozilla Root Store Policy > <https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/governance/policies/security-group/certs/policy/#33-cps-and-cpses>). > This is in relation to GitHub Mozilla PKI Issue #243 > <https://github.com/mozilla/pkipolicy/issues/243>. It has been suggested > that the time period for updating a CP/CPS should be shorter than 365 days, > at least for CPs and CPSes describing issuance of TLS server certificates, > because the Baseline Requirements are updated much more frequently. > > I am not sure whether the same CP/CPS revision timeframe should apply to a > CA that only has the email trust bit enabled. > > I like the phrasing that would be taken from the CA/Browser Forum's > Baseline Requirements section 2.3. As a start, it could be revised to read > as follows: > > "The CA *operator *SHALL develop, implement, enforce, *review,* and > annually update a Certificate Policy, and/or Certification Practice > Statement*, or combined CP/CPS,* that describes in detail how the CA *operator > *implements the latest version of *this Policy and the* these *Baseline* > Requirements. The CA SHALL indicate conformance with this requirement by > incrementing the version number and adding a dated changelog entry *at > least every X days*, even if no other changes are made to the document." > > Thanks, > > Ben > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups " > [email protected]" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/d/msgid/dev-security-policy/CA%2B1gtab0Nme4EyHyXHGs6Lb%3DaCTG5T22tnc8V4%3DcV1uEnXuyOw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/d/msgid/dev-security-policy/CA%2B1gtab0Nme4EyHyXHGs6Lb%3DaCTG5T22tnc8V4%3DcV1uEnXuyOw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "[email protected]" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/d/msgid/dev-security-policy/CALVZKwbLNm5J1_w-AHCc1q%2BDv9AhSZp_PbKPOat15RtWBXLTxw%40mail.gmail.com.
