The following notice was published March 31, 1997 (Volume 62, Number 61) in
the Federal Register, p. 15158.

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Technology Administration

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

AGENCY: Technology Administration, Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of 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 hold a meeting on April 23-24, 1997. 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 advise to 
the Department on encryption key recovery for use by federal government 
agencies. All sessions will be open to the public.

DATES: The meeting will be held on April 23 and 24, 1997, from 9:00 
a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will take place at the Tremont Hotel, 275 
Tremont Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Edward Roback, Committee Secretary and 
Designated Federal Official, Computer Security Division, National 
Institute of Standards and Technology, Building 820, Room 426, 
Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899; telephone 301-975-3696. Please do not 
call the hotel facility regarding details of this meeting.

AGENDA:

--Opening Remarks
--Chairperson's Remarks
--News Updates
--Working Group (WG) Reports
--WG1--Framework
--WG2--Security Models
--WG3--Key Recovery Agents (KRA)
--WG4--Non-KRA Elements
--WG5--Interoperability
--Federal records archiving briefing
--Intellectual Property Issues (as necessary)
--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.

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 sixty copies could be submitted for 
distribution to the Committee and other meeting attendees.

Additional information regarding the Committee is available at its 
world wide web homepage at: http://csrc.nist.gov/tacdfipsfkmi.

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

Dated: March 21, 1997.

Mark Bohannon,
Chief Counsel for Technology.

[FR Doc. 97-7981 Filed 3-28-97; 8:45 am]
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