OpenC2 Happenings for week of 18 November 2019

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

ITEM ONE: TC Meeting This Week. The monthly OpenC2 TC meeting will be held on Wednesday the 20th (links below). Contact the Co-Chairs or the Secretary if youÂhave any agenda items. If you wish to review the minutes from the October meeting, they can be found here:Âhttps://www.oasis-open.org/committees/document.php?document_id=66210&wg_abbrev=openc2Â

ITEM TWO: Language Specification Update Ballot. The Language SC chair has published a new working draft incorporating a small number of errata to the v1.0 Language Specification. TC Members are requested to review the changes and participate in the just announcedÂSpecial Majority Vote to approveÂthis WD as a CD.Â

Toby's email about the errata is here:

https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/openc2/201910/msg00014.htmlÂÂ

The Special Majority Vote runs from 18 through 24 November; the email announcing the vote is here:ÂÂhttps://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/openc2/201911/msg00022.html

ITEM THREE: Plug FestÂUpdate. OpenC2Âwill be runningÂa plug fest / hackathonÂ27-28 January 2020,Âhosted by US Cyber Command in their public, unclassified DreamPort facilityÂin Columbia, MD. TC members are encouraged to consider participation in this event.ÂÂFurther details and registration information can be found at DreamPort:Âhttps://dreamport.tech/event-open-c2-plug-fest-01272820.php

A Tech Talk was conducted at DreamPort onÂTuesday,Â5 November, providing information about OpenC2 and our plans for the plug fest to about 35 people. Slides from the event have been posted; information was circulated in a separate email and on Slack.

A Slack channel has been established to help with plug fest coordination: # plug-fest-prepÂ

https://openc2-community.slack.com/messages/CNW18R2NRÂ

OASIS has created a new mail list for the plug fest which is open to interested parties regardless of OASIS or TC membership. If you are interested in participating on that mailing list, please let the Secretary know your preferred email to use.Â

The list address isÂopenc2-plugfest-2019@lists.oasis-open.org

Six Key Points:

1) The goal of the Plug Fest is to execute use cases using OpenC2 and gather lessons learned about interoperability.Â

2) The Plug Fest is not a venue for the development of OpenC2 specifications.

3) The Plug Fest is open to interested participants, regardless of whether they are OASIS members.

4) The Plug Fest is open to all. The DreamPort facility and the Plug Fest are unclassified, and there is no restriction to U.S. organizations or individuals.

5) The plugfest aspect is for testing interworking of existing OpenC2 implementations. Let us know what you have and we will work your implementation into the test plans.

6) The hackathon aspect is for improving the interworking of existing OpenC2 implementations, extending existing implementations (e.g., the many OpenC2 open source projects), and/or creating new implementations of OpenC2.

ITEM FOUR: Google Cloud Platform. A Google representative is working to provide Google Cloud Platform (GCP) resources to support the Plug Fest. A session to introduce people to the basics of using GCP is planned for 5 December at DreamPort. Further details and registration information can be found at DreamPort:Âhttps://dreamport.tech/event-open-c2-crash-course-120519.php

ITEM FIVE: Language SC Co-chair. To-date no nominations have been received for the positionÂof Language SC co-chair.ÂPlease contact either of the TC co-chairs to nominate a candidate or discuss your interest in the co-chair position.Â

ITEM SIX:ÂÂA 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. ÂPlease 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:

TC Monthly Meeting

Wednesday, 6 November at 11:00 AM and 9:00 PMEST

Morning meeting:ÂÂhttps://meet.lucidmeetings.com/meeting/231567

Evening meeting:ÂÂhttps://meet.lucidmeetings.com/meeting/231566

Sent on behalf of the TC Co-Chairs,

Dave

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David P. Lemire, CISSP

HII Mission Driven Innovative Solutions (HII-MDIS,Âformerly G2, Inc.)

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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