Ballot CSC-14 – Convert Code Signing Baseline Requirements to RFC 3647 Framework

Code Signing Certificate Working Group

Key dates

Effective date: 29 Jun 2022 3 years ago
Voting opened: 29 Jun 2022 3 years ago
IPR review ends: 25 Jun 2022 3 years ago

Resources

✉ Mailing list https://lists.cabforum.org/pipermail/cscwg-public/2022-June/000823.html here

AI Summary

Generated 2026-06-23 21:27 UTC

Ballot overview

Ballot CSC-14 updates the Code Signing Baseline Requirements by replacing the entire content of version 2.8 with an attached document.
The ballot’s purpose is to convert the Code Signing Baseline Requirements to the RFC 3647 framework.
The page says this restates existing obligations and requirements in the outline recommended by RFC 3647 to make comparison with other policy documents easier.

Voting result

The ballot has PASSED.
Certificate issuers listed as voting yes include Actalis, Certum (Asseco), DigiCert, eMudhra, Entrust, GlobalSign, HARICA, SSL.com, SecureTrust, and Sectigo.
Microsoft is listed as a certificate consumer.

Review period and IPR

The review period ran from 26 May 2022 at 18:00 UTC to 25 June 2022 at 18:00 UTC.
The IPR review period ended on June 25, 2022.
No exclusion notices were filed.

Effective date

The final documents have an effective date of 2022-06-29.
This is the date by which the updated Code Signing Baseline Requirements take effect.

Model: gpt-5.4-mini Confidence: 0.98 Result: passed

Effective date: 2022-06-29
Voting opened: 2022-06-29
IPR review ends: 2022-06-25

Applicability and conditions

2022-06-29 — CAs must follow the updated Code Signing Baseline Requirements in RFC 3647 framework form Applies to the final documents produced by Ballot CSC-14 after the review period ended with no exclusion notices filed

AI-generated from the CABF ballot page. The official CABF article remains the authoritative source.

Proposers

Corey Bonnell of DigiCert and endorsed by Ian McMillan of Microsoft and Dimitris Zacharopoulos of HARICA.

Excerpt

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