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Subject: Re: [smartgrid-discuss] Draft charter for proposed OASIS Energy InteroperationTechnical Committee


All,

I agree that security is absolutely important and essential. However, it 
is also important that OpenADR and similar efforts do not develop any 
security components. Instead uniform security methodologies should be 
seamlessly adopted in supporting the underlying messaging. I would try 
to focus this TC on a narrow scope so that it does one thing extremely well.

Cheers,
Marty

Arshad Noor wrote:
> OASIS TC's are made up, unfortunately, of either business-focused
> TC's or security-focused TC's.  As a result, the business TC's do
> a great job of capturing business-requirements, but rarely address
> security issues (despite the evidence of increasing attacks against
> applications on the internet), while security TC's tend to focus
> on hard-core security without addressing the business drivers to
> ensure their focus and adoption.
>
> Two TC's that have departed from this norm are the OASIS Enterprise
> Key Management Infrastructure (EKMI) TC and the OASIS LegalXML
> eNotarization (eNotary) TC.
>
> The EKMI TC has not only developed a hard-core cryptographic
> key-management protocol - the Symmetric Key Services Markup
> Languague (SKSML), but also focuses on creating Implementation,
> Operations and Audit Guidelines to ensure that implementations of
> EKMI are in compliance with legal/contractual regulations for 
> data-security.  This was stated as an objective within the TC's
> charter at its inception two years ago.  As a result, besides
> security people, the TC includes IT Auditors, application
> developers and IT consultants all of whom are focused on meeting
> security *and* business objectives.
>
> The LegalXML eNotarization TC has just created a protocol called
> the eNotarization Markup Language (ENML) designed to electronically
> notarize electronic documents.  While ENML was designed to serve the
> real-estate industry primarily, it is generic enough that it can be
> used to re-engineer any business process that relies on notarized
> paper documents.  This not only saves money, but speeds up the
> business transaction and improves the integrity of data-capture in
> applications.  ENML specifically addresses security as a core
> component in the protocol because of the impact electronically
> notarized documents can have in the multi-trillion dollar real-
> estate industry.
>
> There is even a document titled "Security implications of ENML"
> within the TC's repository to inform legal and business people on
> what they need to know about securing and trusting eNotarized
> documents.
>
> My suggestion is have the new Energy Interop TC specifically
> include security features (identifying individually desired
> features) as part of its deliverables to ensure the TC meets its
> charter objectives.
>
> Arshad Noor
> StrongAuth, Inc.
>
> Edward Koch wrote:
>> Neil,
>>
>> You are absolutely correct.  I know that you are very involved in the 
>> AMI-SEC effort and my hope is that much of the requirements from that 
>> will be input to the OpenADR task group within UCAIug and therefore 
>> become part of the OASIS/UCAIug collaboration.  Darren Highfill has 
>> been very involved with setting up the OpenADR task group within 
>> UCAIug so I’m fairly confident that this topic will not be ignored.
>>
>> I’ve never been involved with an OASIS TC, but it is safe to say that 
>> OASIS does have a lot of experience with cyber security.  I’m just 
>> not sure how they address this cross cutting issue within their other 
>> TC’s.  Can someone that has more direct experience with OASIS comment 
>> on this topic?
>>
>> -ed koch
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> *From:* ngreenfield@aep.com [mailto:ngreenfield@aep.com]
>> *Sent:* Monday, February 16, 2009 2:03 PM
>> *To:* William Cox
>> *Cc:* Mary Ann Piette; smartgrid-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org
>> *Subject:* Re: [smartgrid-discuss] Draft charter for proposed OASIS 
>> Energy Interoperation Technical Committee
>>
>> Well, I'm not a member, but for someone who's well immersed in my own 
>> organization's Smart Grid initiative, I would say that one critical 
>> component missing in this draft proposal is a discussion around cyber 
>> security.
>>
>> There are a number of interrelated factors that need to be considered 
>> relative to cyber security and the Smart Grid, including the basic 
>> attributes (primary security services) of */Confidentiality/*, 
>> */Integrity/*, */Availability/*, */Accounting/Auditing/*, 
>> */Identification/*, */Authentication/*, */Authorization /*and 
>> */Non-repudiation/*.  Privacy is another attribute, but it relies 
>> upon the others and is mainly a consideration of laws and regulations 
>> and how it relates to the individual. 
>> There are a lot of factors involved with the implementation of the 
>> Smart Grid and it relies heavily on cyber security.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Neil Greenfield
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