First Meeting Announced

The following notice appeared in the Federal Register on 11-19-96:
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U.S. Department of Commerce

Technical Advisory Committee to Develop a Federal Information Processing
Standard for the Federal Key Management Infrastructure

Agency: Technology Administration, Commerce

Action:  Notice of open meeting.

Summary:  Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App.,
notice is hereby given that the Technical Advisory Committee to Develop a
Federal Information Processing Standard for the Federal Key Management
Infrastructure will meet on December 5 and 6, 1996.  The Technical Advisory
Committee to Develop a Federal Information Processing Standard for the
Federal Key Management Infrastructure was established by the Secretary of
Commerce to provide industry advice to the Department on cryptographic key
recovery in the Federal Key Management Infrastructure. All sessions will be
open to the public.

Dates:  The meeting will be held on December 5 and 6.  On December 5th, the
meeting will take place from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. On December 6th the
meeting will take pace from 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.  

Address:  The meeting will take place at the Sheraton Grand Hotel at
Dallas/Ft. Worth Airport [Highway 114 & Esters Boulevard], 4440 W. John
Carpenter Freeway, Irving,  Texas.  

For further information contact:  Edward Roback, Computer Specialist,
Computer Security Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology,
Building 820, Room 426, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899; telephone 301-975-3696.  

Supplementary Information:  

1.  Agenda:

Opening Remarks
Chairperson's Remarks
Review of Committee Tasking
Review of Rules Regarding Committee Operations
Introduction/Perspectives  of Committee Members & Organizations
Technology Briefings
News Updates
Workplan Development
Discussion of Assignments
Public Participation
Plans for Next Meeting
Closing Remarks

Note that the items in this agenda are tentative and subject to change due
to logistics and speaker availability.

2.  Public Participation:  The Committee meeting will include  a period of
time, not to exceed thirty minutes, for oral comments from the public.  Each
speaker will be limited to five minutes.  Members of the public who are
interested in speaking are asked to contact the individual identified in the
"for further information" section.  In addition, written statements are
invited and may be submitted to the Committee at any time.  Written comments
should be directed to the Technical Advisory Committee to Develop a Federal
Information Processing Standard for the Federal Key Management
Infrastructure, Building 820, Room 426, National Institute of Standards and
Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899.  It would be appreciated if
thirty five copies could be submitted for distribution to the Committee.  

3.  Additional information regarding the Committee [is available] at its
world wide web homepage at: http://csrc.nist.gov/tacdfipsfkmi/  .   When
Committee appointments are announced, they will made available via the
homepage.  

4.  Should this meeting be canceled, a notice to that effect will be
published in the Federal Register and a similar notice placed on the
Committee's homepage. 

Dated:   November 13, 1996

Signed:  /s/
	Mark Bohannon
	Chief Counsel for Technology Administration