[cabfpub] Voting Begins: Forum-11: Creation of S/MIME Certificates Working Group

[Wayne Thayer]

Mozilla Abstains on ballot Forum-11.

It is important to ensure that all feedback is considered, and with this
vote I support taking more time to do that. However, there is a fundamental
disagreement on scope for this WG that remains unresolved, and this vote
has unfortunately conflated the scope disagreement with other concerns. I
look forward to collaborating with other members to bring a new ballot
forward that can finally allow the important work of the S/MIME WG to begin.

- Wayne

On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 3:08 PM Tim Hollebeek via Public <public at cabforum.org>
wrote:

> The following ballot is proposed by Tim Hollebeek of DigiCert and endorsed
> by Wayne Thayer of Mozilla and Adriano Santoni of Actalis.
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> Ballot Forum-11: Creation of S/MIME Certificates Working Group
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> Purpose of the Ballot
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> 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.
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> -- MOTION BEGINS –
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> Establish S/MIME Certificates Working Group
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> 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.
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> — MOTION ENDS—
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> The procedure for approval of this ballot is as follows:
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> Discussion (7+ days)
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> Start Time: 2020-01-24  14:40:00 EDT
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> End Time: after 2020-01-31 14:40:00 EDT
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> Vote for approval (7 days)
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> Start Time: 2020-02-05 17:10 EDT
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> End Time: 2020-02-12 17:10 EDT
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