Google votes NO on Forum-11. We look forward to supporting a more narrowly scoped charter soon, after the recent and long standing feedback has been more thoroughly addressed.
Cheers, Andrew On Wed, 5 Feb 2020 at 14:09, Tim Hollebeek via Public <[email protected]> wrote: > The following ballot is proposed by Tim Hollebeek of DigiCert and endorsed > by Wayne Thayer of Mozilla and Adriano Santoni of Actalis. > > > > Ballot Forum-11: Creation of S/MIME Certificates Working Group > > > > Purpose of the Ballot > > > > The CA/Browser Forum recently underwent a two-year long governance reform > exercise, modifying the Bylaws to allow the creation of working groups that > covered topics other than server certificates. While originally motivated > by the inability to maintain requirements for code signing certificates, it > was anticipated from the start that this would also provide an opportunity > to create other working groups that could develop and maintain certificate > profiles and requirements for other kinds of certificates. While a number > of regional and technical standards exist regarding the creation and > issuance of S/MIME certificates, there is no current global forum for > certificate authorities and those who consume or use S/MIME certificates to > come together and develop and maintain policies and standards for those > certificates. This lack of standards has impeded the adoption and > interoperability of S/MIME certificate worldwide. This ballot would > establish a working group chartered to develop and maintain such standards > for S/MIME certificates, including but not limited to two important > priorities: a uniform certificate profile for the issuance of > publicly-trusted S/MIME certificates, and validation requirements for such > certificates. > > > > -- MOTION BEGINS – > > > > Establish S/MIME Certificates Working Group > > > > Upon approval of the CAB Forum by ballot in accordance with section 5.3 of > the Bylaws, the S/MIME Certificates Working Group (“SMWG”) is created to > perform the activities as specified in the attached Charter. > > > > — MOTION ENDS— > > > > The procedure for approval of this ballot is as follows: > > > > Discussion (7+ days) > > > > Start Time: 2020-01-24 14:40:00 EDT > > > > End Time: after 2020-01-31 14:40:00 EDT > > > > Vote for approval (7 days) > > > > Start Time: 2020-02-05 17:10 EDT > > > > End Time: 2020-02-12 17:10 EDT > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Public mailing list > [email protected] > https://cabforum.org/mailman/listinfo/public >
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Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
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