Ballot SMC03: Corrections and clarifications for “S/MIME Baseline Requirements”

Ballot overview

• Ballot SMC03 is titled Corrections and clarifications for S/MIME Baseline Requirements.
• It modifies the Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted S/MIME Certificates and results in Version 1.0.1.
• The ballot is described as a Final Maintenance Guideline.

What the ballot changes

• Clarifies and corrects several sections of the S/MIME Baseline Requirements v1.0.0.
• Affected areas include:
  • Transition for Extant S/MIME CAs in Definitions, 7.1.2.2, and Appendix B
  • Enterprise RA capabilities in 1.3.2.1
  • Mailbox Address definition in 1.3.3
  • Pseudonym references in 3.1.1, 3.1.3, 7.1.4.2.2 (a), and 9.4.2
  • Enterprise RA reference clarifications in 3.2.4, 3.2.4.2 (6), and 3.28
  • Numbering cleanup in 4.9.1.1
  • keyUsages for EdDSA Certificates in 7.1.2.3 (e)
  • LEI clarification in 7.1.2.3 (l)
  • ISO code clarification in organizationIdentifier in 7.1.4.2.2 (a)
  • ETSI audit requirements in 8.4
  • Minor text corrections

Voting and adoption

• The voting period completed and the ballot passed.
• Voting results:
  • 21 Certificate Issuer votes total, all YES
  • 2 Certificate Consumer votes total, all YES
• Bylaw requirements were met for Certificate Issuers, Certificate Consumers, and quorum.
• The ballot was adopted as of August 11, 2023.

IPR review

• The Intellectual Property Review period completed.
• No IPR Exclusion Notices were filed.

Effective timing

• SMC03 becomes effective at the same time as the S/MIME BR on September 01, 2023.
• The ballot page also states that the SMCWG Chair or Vice-Chair is permitted to update the Relevant Dates and Version Number of the S/MIME Baseline Requirements to reflect final dates.