NIST announces the public comment release of Draft NIST Interagency Report (NISTIR) 7904, Trusted Geolocation in the Cloud: Proof of Concept Implementation. This publication explains selected security challenges involving Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing technologies and geolocation. It then describes a proof of concept implementation that was designed to address those challenges. The publication provides sufficient details about the proof of concept implementation so that organizations can reproduce it if desired. The publication is intended to be a blueprint or template that can be used by the general security community to validate and implement the described proof of concept implementation. 

Comment period CLOSED on: January 31, 2013. Questions? Send email to: ir7904-comments@nist.gov.