[cabfpub] VOTING BEGINS: Ballot Forum-14 version 2: Creation of S/MIME Certificates Working Group

[Neil Dunbar]

TrustCor votes YES to ballot Forum-14v2

Thanks,

Neil

On 08/06/2020 21:51, Tim Hollebeek via Public wrote:
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> The following ballot is proposed by Tim Hollebeek of DigiCert and
> endorsed by Wayne Thayer of Mozilla and Clint Wilson of Apple.
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> Ballot Forum-14: Creation of S/MIME Certificates Working Group
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> Purpose of the Ballot
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> 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.
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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 Charter, with
> the Charter as described here
> (https://github.com/cabforum/documents/compare/6e0b8e61590164eb2d686ddcf266b189f46fc636...e6ad111f4477010cbff409cd939c5ac1c7c85ccc).
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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: 2020-06-01 16:40:00 EDT
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> End Time: after 2020-06-08 16:40:00 EDT
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> Vote for approval (7 days)
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> Start Time: 2020-06-08 16:50:00 EDT
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> End Time: 2020-06-15 16:50:00 EDT
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