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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">SwissSign votes ‘Yes’ on SMC01v3<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Mike<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="DE">Von:</span></b><span lang="DE"> Smcwg-public <smcwg-public-bounces@cabforum.org>
<b>Im Auftrag von </b>Stephen Davidson via Smcwg-public<br>
<b>Gesendet:</b> Dienstag, 25. Oktober 2022 16:40<br>
<b>An:</b> smcwg-public@cabforum.org<br>
<b>Betreff:</b> [Smcwg-public] Vote for Approval - Ballot SMC01v3: Final Guideline for “S/MIME Baseline Requirements”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ballot SMC01v3: Final Guideline for “S/MIME Baseline Requirements”
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Purpose of Ballot:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The S/MIME Certificate Working Group was chartered to discuss, adopt, and maintain policies, frameworks, and standards for the issuance and management of Publicly-Trusted S/MIME Certificates. This ballot adopts a new
“S/MIME Baseline Requirements” that includes requirements for verification of control over email addresses, identity validation for natural persons and legal entities, key management and certificate lifecycle, certificate profiles for S/MIME Certificates and
Issuing CA Certificates, as well as CA operational and audit practices.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">An S/MIME Certificate for the purposes of this document can be identified by the existence of an Extended Key Usage (EKU) for id-kp-emailProtection (OID: 1.3.6.1.5.5.7.3.4) and the inclusion of a rfc822Name or an otherName
of type id-on-SmtpUTF8Mailbox in the subjectAltName extension in the Certificate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The following motion has been proposed by Stephen Davidson of DigiCert and endorsed by Martijn Katerbarg of Sectigo and Ben Wilson of Mozilla.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">— MOTION BEGINS —<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">This ballot adopts the “Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted S/MIME Certificates” (“S/MIME Baseline Requirements”) as Version 1.0.0.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The proposed S/MIME Baseline Requirements may be found at
<a href="https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fcabforum%2Fsmime%2Fpull%2F178%2Ffiles&data=05%7C01%7Cmichael.guenther%40swisssign.com%7C425603d4bb5c4256061d08dab696d6ab%7C21322582607f404c82d950ddb1eca5c9%7C1%7C0%7C638023056237414434%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=44gMin47374iWePbtrhc1H8obYgZ32lw0eMtXI937wE%3D&reserved=0">
https://github.com/cabforum/smime/pull/178/files</a> or the attached document. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The SMCWG Chair or Vice-Chair is permitted to update the Relevant Dates and Version Number of the S/MIME Baseline Requirements to reflect final dates.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">— MOTION ENDS —<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">This ballot proposes a Final Guideline. The procedure for approval of this ballot is as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Discussion (7+ days)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Start Time: 14 October 2022 18:00 UTC<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">End Time: not before 21 October 2022 18:00 UTC<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Vote for approval (7 days)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Start Time: 25 October 2022, 14:00 UTC<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">End Time: 1 November 2022, 14:00 UTC<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">IPR Review (60 days)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Charter Voting References:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Section 5.1 (“Voting Structure”) of the SMCWG Charter says:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In order for a ballot to be adopted by the SMCWG, two-thirds or more of the votes cast by the Certificate Issuers must be in favor of the ballot and more than 50% of the votes cast by the Certificate Consumers must be
in favor of the ballot. At least one member of each class must vote in favor of a ballot for it to be adopted. Quorum is the average number of Member organizations (cumulative, regardless of Class) that have participated in the previous three (3) SMCWG Meetings
or Teleconferences (not counting subcommittee meetings thereof).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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