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

[Zurina Zolkaffly]

MSC Trustgate.com votes YES on SMC01v3.

 

Regards

 

Zurina

 

 

Ballot SMC01v3: Final Guideline for "S/MIME Baseline Requirements" 

 

Purpose of Ballot:

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.

 

- MOTION BEGINS -

 

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.

The proposed S/MIME Baseline Requirements may be found at
https://github.com/cabforum/smime/pull/178/files or the attached document.  

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 -

 

This ballot proposes a Final Guideline. The procedure for approval of this
ballot is as follows:

 

Discussion (7+ days)

Start Time: 14 October 2022 18:00 UTC

End Time: not before 21 October 2022 18:00 UTC

 

Vote for approval (7 days)

Start Time: 25 October 2022, 14:00 UTC

End Time: 1 November 2022, 14:00 UTC

 

IPR Review (60 days)

 

Charter Voting References:

Section 5.1 ("Voting Structure") of the SMCWG Charter says:

 

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).

 

 

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