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Subject: RE: Nominations Requested to Fill Position of PKI TC Chair- Nomination period closes 7PM EST March 30 2006
aLL: A reminder that
nominatations are being accepted from candidates for election as chair PKI TC. please
send nominations to me by 7pm est today, thursday, march 30 2006. thentc
charter is included below thanks, john From: Sabo, John T All: As you know, Steve Hanna has stepped down as Chair of the
PKI TC, and we will need to hold an election to fill the position.
According to OASIS guidelines, I am now calling for interested OASIS
members to submit their names as candidates for the PKI TC Chair position.
Interested members are asked to send their names directly
to me by 7PM EST, Thursday March 30. Following closure of the
nomination period, we will open a ballot for the election by voting members of
the PKI TC. Please let me know if you have any questions. I am
inserting the PKI TC Charter below. Thanks, John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Public
Key Infrastructure Technical Committee (PKI TC) Many organizations worldwide are developing strategies
to a) utilize digital certificates to provide higher levels of security, b)
make applications certificate aware. and c) promote the deployment of digital
certificates for many business purposes including digital signatures. The
purpose of the PKI TC is to address issues related to the successful deployment
of digital certificates to meet business and security requirements, as well as
technical and integration/interoperability issues. Furthermore, the PKI TC will
increase the awareness of digital certificates as an important component when
managing access to network resources, delivering secured electronic messages
and conducting secure electronic transactions. The PKI TC will also provide a
forum for a broad community utilizing PKI and digital certificates in
application-focused standards and projects, as well as a mechanism for the
creation of documents related to the implementation of PKI internationally. The goals of the TC are: To provide an international forum for software vendors,
industry, government, and implementers to internationally discuss issues, share
solutions, and develop white papers with respect to addressing:
List of Deliverables A very wide range of topics will be addressed by the TC,
and it is expected that several sub-committees will be formed. TC deliverables
will include:
The TC recognizes the importance of advancing the understanding
and applicability of XML-based PKI standards as well as other broader Web
services and security standardization effort within OASIS of which PKI is a
component of. Such standards including: XKMS, WS-Security, the Security
Assertion Markup Language (SAML), the XML Access Control Markup Language
(XACML), the Rights Language, the Service Provisioning Markup Language (SPML)
and XML Common Biometric Format (XCBF), and Digital Signature Services (DSS)
protocol. Specific work-plan and deliverables will be developed based on TC and
OASIS member input. __________________________________ John T. Sabo, CISSP |
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