InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards

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Doc:  in030029
Date: January 10, 2003
Project: Standards Processing - 5 year maintenance
Reply to:  Barbara Bennett, 202-626-5743, bbennett@itic.org
To: Mrs. Chester, Chair, INCITS/T4
cc: D. Thewlis, INCITS Liaison to T4

Dear Mrs. Chester:

Subject: 2003 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 2003).

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, 2003.

If a recommendation is not forthcoming from T4 by April 1, 2003, 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 (2003 Action)
 
 
TC: T4 - Security Techniques
Liaison: Mr. Thewlis
Project: 293 - M
Standard INCITS 92 :1981 [R1998]
Title: Data Encryption Algorithm
Status: TC notified of maintenance in in030029. TC recommendation due 04/01/03.

TC: T4 - Security Techniques
Liaison: Mr. Thewlis
Project: 888 - M
Standard TR 13335-3 :1998 [2002 ]
Title: Information technology - Security techniques - Guidelines for the Management of IT Security, Part 3: Techniques for the Management of IT Security (as a technical report)
Status: No national maintenance required at this time; however, Head's-Up! International maintenance will be needed.

TC: T4 - Security Techniques
Liaison: Mr. Thewlis
Project: 1011 - M
Standard A/I 14888-1 :1998 [2000 ]
Title: Information technology - Security techniques - Digital signatures with appendix - Part 1: General
Status: No national maintenance required at this time; however, Head's-Up! International maintenance will be needed.

TC: T4 - Security Techniques
Liaison: Mr. Thewlis
Project: 1011 - M
Standard A/I 14888-3 :1998 [2000 ]
Title: Information technology - Security techniques - Digital signatures with appendix - Part 3: Certificate-based mechanisms
Status: No national maintenance required at this time; however, Head's-Up! International maintenance will be needed.

TC: T4 - Security Techniques
Liaison: Mr. Thewlis
Project: 1012 - M
Standard A/I 10118-3 :1998 [2001 ]
Title: Information technology - Security techniques - Hash functions: Part 3: Dedicated hash functions
Status: No national maintenance required at this time; however, Head's-Up! International maintenance will be needed.

TC: T4 - Security Techniques
Liaison: Mr. Thewlis
Project: 1012 - L
Standard IS 10118-4 :1998 [ ]
Title: Information technology - Security techniques - Hash functions: Part 4: Hash functions using modular arithmetic
Status: No national maintenance required at this time; however, Head's-Up! International maintenance will be needed.