Ballot 47 – Document Aging

Ballot overview

• Ballot 47 – Document Aging was posted on the CA/Browser Forum site.
• The page states that this ballot was withdrawn.
• The evidence also says the ballot maintains consistency between the S/MIME Baseline Requirements and the TLS Baseline Requirements with changes introduced by Ballots SC096 and SC097.

Stated ballot changes

• Creates a carve-out of the logging requirements for DNSSEC, stating these are not in scope.
• For audit purposes, change management logging is able to confirm whether the appropriate controls are in effect.
• Sunsets all remaining use of SHA-1 signatures in Certificates and CRLs.
• Notes that most uses of SHA-1 signatures are already deprecated by SC097.
• Requires that all unexpired Subordinate CA Certificates issuing S/MIME containing the SHA-1 signature algorithm must be revoked.
• States that the proposal does not prohibit the use of SHA-1 to generate issuerKeyHash or issuerNameHash values as required by RFC 5019.
• Includes minor formatting corrections.