InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards

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Doc:  in040063
Date: January 26, 2004
Project: Standards Processing - 5 year maintenance
Reply to:  Barbara Bennett, 202-626-5743, bbennett@itic.org
To: Mr. Griffin, Chair, INCITS T4
cc: R. Gaskill, INCITS Liaison to T4

Dear Mr. Griffin:

Subject: 2004 Five-Year Maintenance Review of T4 Standards

In accordance with ANSI and INCITS policy, action must be taken during the four-year anniversary of a standard's approval date to either reaffirm or withdraw the standard. Should the TC's review result in a recommendation to revise a standard, a project proposal describing the proposed revision should be submitted with the recommendation to reaffirm, pending revision. If a standard is currently under revision, the customary four-year action would be reaffirmation of the current standard, pending completion of the revision.

Five-year maintenance actions should be completed (including a 45-day public review and 30-day INCITS letter ballot, followed by the 14-day request for BSR-9 approval) before the end of the year (December 2004).

According to the records of the INCITS Secretariat, your TC should review the attached list of standards and forward a recomendation to reaffirm or withdraw each standard. This review should include any associated amendments and corrigenda.

Each recommendation may be approved (2/3 rule) by TC letter ballot. Additionally, for approvals (2/3 rule) conducted at a TC meeting, a withdrawal or archival (stabilize) recommendation is by roll-call vote and a reaffirmation recommendation is by meeting vote. Upon approval by the Technical Committee, the recommendation should be forwarded to the INCITS Secretariat for action by April 1, 2004.

If a recommendation is not forthcoming from T4 by April 1, 2004, INCITS will be forced to make a recommendation on this issue without the benefit of the Technical Committee's input.

Your expeditious action is appreciated. If you have questions or concerns, please contact Barbara Bennett at bbennett@itic.org, or 202-626-5743.

Sincerely,

Barbara Bennett
Associate Manager, Stds. Processing, INCITS


Attachment

T4 Standards Maintenance (2004 Action)
 
 
TC: T4 - Security Techniques
Liaison: Mr. Gaskill
Project: 890 - M
Standard INCITS/ISO/IEC 15408-1 :1999 [2000 ]
Title: Information technology - Security techniques - Evaluation Criteria for IT Security - Part 1: Introduction and general model
Status: No national maintenance required at this time; however, Head's-Up, International Maintenance may be required.

TC: T4 - Security Techniques
Liaison: Mr. Gaskill
Project: 890 - M
Standard INCITS/ISO/IEC 15408-2 :1999 [2000 ]
Title: Information technology - Security techniques - Evaluation Criteria for IT Security - Part 2: Security functional requirements
Status: No national maintenance required at this time; however, Head's-Up, International Maintenance may be required.

TC: T4 - Security Techniques
Liaison: Mr. Gaskill
Project: 890 - M
Standard INCITS/ISO/IEC 15408-3 :1999 [2000 ]
Title: Information technology - Security techniques - Evaluation Criteria for IT Security - Part 3: Security assurance requirements
Status: No national maintenance required at this time; however, Head's-Up, International Maintenance may be required.

TC: T4 - Security Techniques
Liaison: Mr. Gaskill
Project: 892 - M
Standard INCITS/ISO/IEC 11770-2 :1996 [1999 ]
Title: Information technology - Security techniques - Key management - Part 2: Mechanisms using symmetric techniques
Status: TC notified of maintenance in in040063. TC recommendation due 04/01/04.

TC: T4 - Security Techniques
Liaison: Mr. Gaskill
Project: 892 - M
Standard INCITS/ISO/IEC 11770-3 :1999 [2001 ]
Title: Information technology - Security techniques - Key Management - Part 3: Mechanisms using asymmetric techniques
Status: No national maintenance required at this time; however, Head's-Up, International Maintenance may be required.

TC: T4 - Security Techniques
Liaison: Mr. Gaskill
Project: 1005 - M
Standard INCITS/ISO/IEC 8372 :1987 [1999 ]
Title: Information technology - Security techniques - Modes of operation for a 64-bit block cipher algorithm
Status: TC notified of maintenance in in040063. TC recommendation due 04/01/04.

TC: T4 - Security Techniques
Liaison: Mr. Gaskill
Project: 1007 - M
Standard INCITS/ISO/IEC 9798-2 :1999 [2000 ]
Title: Information technology - Security techniques - Entity authentication - Part 2: Mechanisms using symetric encipherment aglorithms (2nd edition)
Status: No national maintenance required at this time; however, Head's-Up, International Maintenance may be required.

TC: T4 - Security Techniques
Liaison: Mr. Gaskill
Project: 1007 - M
Standard INCITS/ISO/IEC 9798-4 :1999 [2000 ]
Title: Information technology - Security techniques - Entity authentication - Part 4: Mechanisms using a cryptographic check function (2nd edition)
Status: No national maintenance required at this time; however, Head's-Up, International Maintenance may be required.

TC: T4 - Security Techniques
Liaison: Mr. Gaskill
Project: 1008 - M
Standard INCITS/ISO/IEC 9797 :1994 [1999 ]
Title: Information technology -- Security techniques - Data integrity mechanism using a cryptographic check function employing a block cipher algorithm
Status: TC notified of maintenance in in040063. TC recommendation due 04/01/04.

TC: T4 - Security Techniques
Liaison: Mr. Gaskill
Project: 1008 - M
Standard INCITS/ISO/IEC 9797-1 :1999 [2000 ]
Title: Information technology - Security techniques - Message authentication codes (MACs) - Part 1: Mechanisms using block cipher (3rd edition)
Status: No national maintenance required at this time; however, Head's-Up, International Maintenance may be required.

TC: T4 - Security Techniques
Liaison: Mr. Gaskill
Project: 1010 - M
Standard INCITS/ISO/IEC 9796 :1991 [1999 ]
Title: Information technology - Digital signature schemes giving message recovery - Part 1: Mechanisms using redundancy
Status: TC notified of maintenance in in040063. TC recommendation due 04/01/04.

TC: T4 - Security Techniques
Liaison: Mr. Gaskill
Project: 1013 - M
Standard INCITS/ISO/IEC 9979 :1999 [2000 ]
Title: Information technology - Security techniques - Procedures for the registration of cryptographic algorithms (2nd edition)
Status: No national maintenance required at this time; however, Head's-Up, International Maintenance may be required.