HARICA votes "yes" to Forum-14.
On 2020-06-08 11:51 μ.μ., Tim Hollebeek via Public wrote:
The following ballot is proposed by Tim Hollebeek of DigiCert and
endorsed by Wayne Thayer of Mozilla and Clint Wilson of Apple.
Ballot Forum-14: Creation of S/MIME Certificates Working Group
Purpose of the Ballot
The CA/Browser Forum 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 Charter, with
the Charter as described here
(https://github.com/cabforum/documents/compare/6e0b8e61590164eb2d686ddcf266b189f46fc636...e6ad111f4477010cbff409cd939c5ac1c7c85ccc).
— MOTION ENDS—
The procedure for approval of this ballot is as follows:
Discussion (7+ days)
Start Time: 2020-06-01 16:40:00 EDT
End Time: after 2020-06-08 16:40:00 EDT
Vote for approval (7 days)
Start Time: 2020-06-08 16:50:00 EDT
End Time: 2020-06-15 16:50:00 EDT
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