[Smcwg-public] Ballot SMC01v3: Final Guideline for “S/MIME Baseline Requirements”

[Stefan Selbitschka]

rundQuadrat votes YES for SMC01v3

On 10/14/22 20:12, Stephen Davidson via Smcwg-public wrote:
> *Ballot SMC01v3: Final Guideline for “S/MIME Baseline Requirements” *
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> /Note: the voting period for this ballot will commence following the SMCWG session at the upcoming 
> CA/B Forum face-to-face Meeting 57./
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> *Purpose of Ballot:*
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> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> The following motion has been proposed by Stephen Davidson of DigiCert and endorsed by Martijn 
> Katerbarg of Sectigo and ­­­Ben Wilson of Mozilla.
> 
> In accordance with the By-Laws, the discussion period has been extended with the distribution of 
> this new version of the ballot, incorporating content that arose during the discussion period 
> including regarding the use of suspension and updating ETSI references in section 8.2.
> 
> *Charter Voting References*
> 
> Section 5.1 (“Voting Structure”) of the SMCWG Charter says:
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> 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).
> 
> *— MOTION BEGINS —*
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> 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.
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> The proposed S/MIME Baseline Requirements may be found at 
> https://github.com/cabforum/smime/pull/178/files <https://github.com/cabforum/smime/pull/178/files> 
> or the attached document.  A redline of changes since the SMC01 Ballot discussion started may be 
> found at 
> https://github.com/cabforum/smime/compare/28c0b904fe54f1c5f6c71d18c4786a3e02c76f52...b1ff7867dc85392e4c57b1993ed571e61e34dee2 <https://github.com/cabforum/smime/compare/28c0b904fe54f1c5f6c71d18c4786a3e02c76f52...b1ff7867dc85392e4c57b1993ed571e61e34dee2>
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> 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.
> 
> *— MOTION ENDS —*
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> This ballot proposes a Final Guideline. The procedure for approval of this ballot is as follows:
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> Discussion (7+ days)
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> Start Time: 14 October 2022 14:00 ET (US Eastern)
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> End Time: not before 21 October 2022 14:00 ET (US Eastern)
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> Vote for approval (7 days)
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> Start Time: To be confirmed
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> End Time: To be confirmed
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> IPR Review (60 days)
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