We seem to have a terminology issue here. What is a server? This is obvious in HTTP but far from obvious in the context of email because there is an inbound and an outbound ‘server’ and it acts as a client and a server at different times.
I agree that certificates used to authenticate Mail Transport Agents are properly part of what the Server WG is specifying. But they may be used by a host acting as a TLS ‘server’ or ‘client’. Another little oddity is that we are assuming that the entity a CA validates and issues certificates to in the S/MIME world is properly the end user rather than the organization. That might not be the right approach. If what the CA is effectively validating is ‘example.com’, and not ‘alice@’, maybe it is better to perform validation on the organization. From: Public <public-boun...@cabforum.org> On Behalf Of Ryan Sleevi via Public Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2018 7:48 PM To: Moudrick M. Dadashov <m...@ssc.lt>; CA/Browser Forum Public Discussion List <public@cabforum.org> Subject: Re: [cabfpub] For Discussion: S/MIME Working Group Charter That's clearly the remit of the Server Certificate Working Group, and should remain so. On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 7:29 PM, Moudrick M. Dadashov via Public <public@cabforum.org <mailto:public@cabforum.org> > wrote: Email server certificates not included? Thanks, M.D. On 5/18/2018 1:49 AM, Tim Hollebeek via Public wrote: Oops, missed a spot: 1. To specify S/MIME Baseline Requirements, Extended Validation Guidelines, Network and Certificate System Security Requirements, and other acceptable practices for the issuance and management of S/MIME certificates used to sign and encrypt emails. _______________________________________________ Public mailing list Public@cabforum.org <mailto:Public@cabforum.org> https://cabforum.org/mailman/listinfo/public _______________________________________________ Public mailing list Public@cabforum.org <mailto:Public@cabforum.org> https://cabforum.org/mailman/listinfo/public
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