A request from the Secretary: Âthe New Year is always a good time to look for opportunities for improvement. I would greatly appreciate feedback on the value of these Happenings emails, and any suggestions for improvement (including approaches other than email). Feel free to contact me directly at
dave.lemire@g2-inc.com or on Slack (@dlemire60) with your thoughts.
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On with the show . . .
ITEM ONE: ÂPost-plug fest. ÂWe had a very successful plug fest / hackathon last week, with about 50 participants and great support from the UMBC Training Facility. Now it's time to capture lessons learned and identify work items based on our plug fest experience. Whether you were a participant or not, please take a look at the plug fest outcomes page on GitHub, contribute based on your plug fest experience, and consider the issues that were identified to find ways to improve our family of specifications.
https://github.com/oasis-tcs/openc2-usecases/blob/master/Cybercom-Plugfest/Plugfest-Outcomes.mdÂ
ITEM TWO: Possible Subcommittee Reorganization. ÂAt 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 THREE: Upcoming Co-Chair Elections. ÂA reminder that, regardless of the decision regarding subcommittee structure, the TC will conduct elections in March for TC co-chair and one co-chair for each subcommittee. Please consider running or think about other TC members who you'd like to see in leadership positions. Co-chair terms are two years. Co-chairs positions whose terms are ending:
The other co-chairs (Duncan Sparrell, Toby Considine, Michelle Barry, and Alex Everett) were elected in March 2019 and their terms run through March 2020.
ITEM FOUR: ÂA call for post 1.0 Participation. Version 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:Language SCMonday, 3 February at 1:00pm EST
Meeting link: Â
https://meet.lucidmeetings.com/meeting/241010 Â
Implementation Considerations SCWednesday, 5 February at 2:00pm EST
Meeting link: Â
https://meet.lucidmeetings.com/meeting/241245Sent on behalf of the TC Co-Chairs,
Dave