Ballot SMC01 – Adopt S/MIME Baseline Requirements v1.0.0
S/MIME Certificate Working Group
Key dates
- Effective date
- 01 Sep 2023 2 years ago
- Voting opened
- 25 Oct 2022 3 years ago
- Voting closed
- 01 Nov 2022 3 years ago
- IPR review ends
- 01 Jan 2023 3 years ago
- Discussion opened
- 14 Oct 2022 3 years ago
- Discussion closed
- 21 Oct 2022 3 years ago
AI Summary
Ballot overview
- Ballot SMC01 adopts S/MIME Baseline Requirements v1.0.0 for publicly-trusted S/MIME certificates.
- The ballot was proposed as a Final Guideline and includes requirements for email address control verification, identity validation for natural persons and legal entities, key management and certificate lifecycle, certificate profiles, and CA operational and audit practices.
- The ballot identifies an S/MIME Certificate by the presence of the id-kp-emailProtection EKU and either a rfc822Name or an otherName of type id-on-SmtpUTF8Mailbox in subjectAltName.
Voting and adoption
- The voting period for SMC01v3 completed and the ballot passed.
- Voting results met the bylaws requirements for Certificate Issuers, Certificate Consumers, and quorum.
- The page states that no IPR Exclusion Notices were filed.
- The ballot is adopted as of January 01, 2023.
Effective date
- The S/MIME Baseline Requirements become effective on September 01, 2023.
- The SMCWG Chair or Vice-Chair is permitted to update the Relevant Dates and Version Number to reflect final dates.
Process dates
- Discussion period: Start Time 14 October 2022 18:00 UTC; End Time not before 21 October 2022 18:00 UTC.
- Vote for approval: Start Time 25 October 2022, 14:00 UTC; End Time 1 November 2022, 14:00 UTC.
- IP Rights Review Period: 60 days; ends at 2359 UTC on January 1, 2023.
- Effective date
- 2023-09-01
- Voting opened
- 2022-10-25
- Voting closed
- 2022-11-01
- IPR review ends
- 2023-01-01
- Discussion opened
- 2022-10-14
- Discussion closed
- 2022-10-21
2023-09-01 — CAs issuing publicly-trusted S/MIME certificates must comply with the adopted S/MIME Baseline Requirements S/MIME Baseline Requirements v1.0.0 for publicly-trusted S/MIME certificates
AI-generated from the CABF ballot page. The official CABF article remains the authoritative source.
Vote result
Proposers
Stephen Davidson of DigiCert and endorsed by Martijn Katerbarg of Sectigo and Ben Wilson of Mozilla.
Excerpt
SearchHome » All CA/Browser Forum Posts » Ballot SMC01 – Adopt S/MIME Baseline Requirements v1.0.0Ballot SMC01 – Adopt S/MIME Baseline Requirements v1.0.0The Intellectual Property Review (IPR) period for Ballot SMC-001 (Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted S/MIME Certificates) has completed. No IPR Exclusion Notices were filed, and the ballot is adopted as of January 01, 2023. The S/MIME BR become effective on September 01, 2023.