Baseline Requirements For Publicly-Trusted Certificates 1.0

This document is version 1.0, as adopted by the CA/Browser Forum on 22 Nov. 2011 with an Effective Date of 1 July 2012. These Baseline Requirements describe an integrated set of technologies, protocols, identity-proofing, lifecycle management, and auditing requirements that are necessary (but not sufficient) for the issuance and management of Publicly-Trusted Certificates; Certificates that are trusted by virtue of the fact that their corresponding Root Certificate is distributed in widely-available application software. The Requirements are not mandatory for Certification Authorities unless and until they become adopted and enforced by relying–party Application Software Suppliers.