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Ballot FORUM-11: Creation of S/MIME Certificates Working Group
S/MIME Certificate Working Group
AI Summary
Ballot overview
- Ballot FORUM-11 proposed creating the S/MIME Certificates Working Group, chartered to develop and maintain standards for S/MIME certificates.
- The stated priorities were a uniform certificate profile for publicly-trusted S/MIME certificates and validation requirements for those certificates.
- The ballot text says the working group would be created upon approval of the CA/Browser Forum by ballot under section 5.3 of the Bylaws.
Vote result
- The voting period ended and the ballot failed.
- Certificate issuers: 3 in favor, 1 abstention.
- Certificate consumers: 3 against, 1 abstention.
- The page explicitly concludes that the ballot fails.
Dates
- No discussion, voting start, voting end, IPR end, or effective date is stated in the supplied evidence.
- Because the ballot failed, it never became normative.
AI-generated from the CABF ballot page. The official CABF article remains the authoritative source.
Proposers
Tim Hollebeek of DigiCert and endorsed by Wayne Thayer of Mozilla and Adriano Santoni of Actalis.
Excerpt
SearchHome » All CA/Browser Forum Posts » Ballot FORUM-11: Creation of S/MIME Certificates Working GroupBallot FORUM-11: Creation of S/MIME Certificates Working GroupVote Results The voting period for Ballot FORUM-11 has ended and the Ballot has Failed. Here are the results:
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