OpenC2 Happenings for week of 27 January 2020

[Dave Lemire <dave.lemire@g2-inc.com>]

A request from the Secretary:ÂÂthe New Year is always a good time to look for opportunities for improvement. I would greatly appreciate feedback on the value of theseÂHappeningsÂemails, and any suggestions for improvement (including approaches other than email). Feel free to contact me directly atÂdave.lemire@g2-inc.comÂor on Slack (@dlemire60) with your thoughts.

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On with the show . . .

PLUG FEST ! ! ! ! !

ITEM ONE: Time for the Plug Fest. After much hype, our plug fest / hackathon is this week: Monday & Tuesday, 27-28 January 2020, hosted by US Cyber Command. Due to the high volume of registrations and other considerations, the event will take place at the UMBC Training facility adjacent to US Cyber Command's DreamPort, in Columbia, MD. TC members are encouraged to consider participation in this event; numerous non-TC members have already registered. Further details and registration information can be found at DreamPort:Âhttps://dreamport.tech/events/event-open-c2-plug-fest-01272820.php

This link provide a Google Map showing the locations of DreamPort and UMBC Training: Âhttps://bit.ly/2R2qOS5

Information about UMBC Training can be found here: Âhttps://www.umbctraining.com/

Information related to the plug fest is being accumulated into pages in the TC's use cases repo; please look atÂhttps://github.com/oasis-tcs/openc2-usecases/tree/master/Cybercom-PlugfestÂand make contributions and corrections to improve the overall value of this resource.

OASIS has created a new mail list for the plug fest which is open to interested parties regardless of OASIS or TC membership. The list address isÂopenc2-plugfest-2019@lists.oasis-open.orgÂ(sorry, but no archive is available).

ITEM TWO: Google Cloud Platform.ÂÂGoogle is providing Google Cloud Platform (GCP) resources to support the Plug Fest. Details on how to take advantage of the GCP resources were emailed to the plug fest mail list on 30 December 2019. Contact the Secretary if you need a copy.


ITEM THREE: Possible Subcommittee Reorganization.ÂÂAt the 22 January TC meeting, Co-Chair Joe Brule discussed the possibility of merging the Language and Implementation Considerations SCs. The consensus of the meeting was that the idea was worth considering but a decision should await the outcome of the Plug Fest and capturing the list of work items that might possibly result from that. The Secretary will be initiating a discussion on the TC mail list regarding this proposal.


ITEM FOUR: ÂA call for post 1.0 Participation.ÂVersion 1.0 of the specifications have been posted, approved and announced, so let's move forward.

• Do you have a product or service that's a candidate for producing / consuming OpenC2 commands and responses? Please consider sharing your Custom Actuator Profile or Proposed Committee specification.  Please contact the AP-SC co-chairs (Alex Everett and Dave Kemp). Â
• HTTPS is ubiquitous, but is there a message fabric that is more suitable for your cyber-ecosystem? Please consider sharing your proposed key management, transport solutions and other implementation considerations with the IC-SC co-chairs (Dave Lemire and Michelle Barry)
• Do you need OpenC2 to do more? Do you have a use case or scenario that we have not considered? Please share you use cases with the L-SC co-chairs (Toby Considine [and a player-to-be-named-later])

Meetings This Week:

Due to the Plug Fest, the Actuator Profiles SC meeting for Tuesday 28 January is CANCELLED.

Sent on behalf of the TC Co-Chairs,

Dave

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David P. Lemire, CISSP

HII Mission Driven Innovative Solutions (HII-MDIS)

Technical Solutions (A Division of Huntington Ingalls Industries)

 OpenC2 Technical Committee Secretary
 OpenC2 Implementation Considerations SC Co-chair
 Contractor support to NSA
Email:Âdave.lemire@g2-inc.com

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