Ballot 59 – Public Review of v. 30b of the Baseline Requirements

Ballot overview

• Ballot 59 was a public review of v. 30b of the Baseline Requirements.
• The ballot page states that this ballot was withdrawn.

What the ballot would have changed

• It would have maintained consistency between the S/MIME Baseline Requirements and the TLS Baseline Requirements with changes introduced by Ballots SC096 and SC097.
• It would have created a carve-out for DNSSEC from the logging requirements, stating those requirements are not in scope.
• It would have clarified that, for audit purposes, change management logging can confirm whether the appropriate controls are in effect.
• It would have sunset all remaining use of SHA-1 signatures in Certificates and CRLs.
• It noted that most uses of SHA-1 signatures were already deprecated by SC097.
• It would have required revocation of all unexpired Subordinate CA Certificates issuing S/MIME containing the SHA-1 signature algorithm.
• It stated that the proposal did not prohibit use of SHA-1 to generate issuerKeyHash or issuerNameHash values as required by RFC 5019.
• It included minor formatting corrections.