TrustCor votes YES to ballot Forum-14v2 Thanks,
Neil On 08/06/2020 21:51, 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 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Public mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.cabforum.org/mailman/listinfo/public
_______________________________________________ Public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.cabforum.org/mailman/listinfo/public
