Draft CA/Browser Forum SCWG agenda - Thursday, October 8 2026 at 11:00 am Eastern Time

[Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA)]

Dear SCWG Members, I would like us to continue the agenda from where we left things at the recent F2F, unless there are objections or concerns.

Here is the draft agenda for the subject call. 

Eva Van Steenberge (Globalsign) is scheduled to take minutes and Gurleen Grewal (Google Trust Services) is up next.

If you have any additional items to raise, please reply to this email.

1. Begin Recording - Roll Call
   
2. Read note-well
   
3. Review of Agenda
4. Minutes approval
• September 23, 2026 F2F#68 (Draft minutes have not been distributed yet)
5. Membership applications
• None
6. Question on public list about a wording question: What is "promptly"
7. Aligning the BRs with “Dedicated” Hierarchy Expectations (Ryan Dickson - Google)
• Defining clear, TLS-specific ICA profiles and establishing a future timeline where certificates chaining to those ICAs must lead to roots that exclusively serve TLS use cases (following up on our F2F 66 presentation).
8. Profile-Specific Linting Expectations (Ryan Dickson - Google)
• Moving beyond checking against generic BR minimums toward validating against a CA Owner’s explicitly stated commitments and specific profiles (which requires well-defined profiles as a prerequisite)
9. Ballot Status – see list below
10. Any Other Business
11. Next call: October 22, 2026
12. Adjourn

Current status of Ballots

This is the latest status of ballots since the last meeting.

In Discussion Period

• SC103: Require EKUs for Cross-Certified Subordinate CAs (Aaron)

In Voting Period

• None

Under IPR review

• None

Cleared IPR review, new Guidelines

• SC104: Set presence of AIA extension to SHOULD for Subscriber Certificates (BRs version 2.3.1 published on 2026-10-04)

Draft / Under Consideration

• SC107: Improve Certificate Problem Reports and Clarify the Meaning of Revocation (Martijn)
• SC106: Allow ML-DSA (Slaughter) (ATS taking over from GTS)
• SC105: Remove High Risk language from TLS BR and EVG (Stephen)
• SC-1XX: EVG Cleanup and BR Sync (Rich)

[Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA)]

Dear all,

Ryan and Chris will not be available for this meeting so we will most likely postpone topics 7 and 8.

Please feel free to propose other topics for discussion.


Thank you,
Dimitris.