M1/03-0612

 

Source: INCITS M1 Chairman

Call for Participants - INCITS Ad Hoc on Privacy Technology

Nomination of Representatives Due January 16, 2004

 

 

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InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards

INCITS Secretariat, Information Technology Industry Council (ITI)

1250 Eye St. NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20005

Telephone 202-737-8888; Fax 202-638-4922;

Email: incits@itic.org

 

Date:                           December 16, 2003

Responses Due:       January 16, 2004

Respond to:               Jennifer Garner

Telephone:                 (202) 626-5737

Email:                         jgarner@itic.org

 

 

To:                   INCITS Executive Board and INCITS TC Chairmen

 

Subject:          Call for Participants - INCITS Ad Hoc on Privacy Technology

 

 

Background

 

At the November 2003 JTC 1 Plenary in Singapore the JTC 1 Study Group on Privacy Technology was established (JTC 1 N 7328) and the US delegation expressed the US National Body's intent to participate in the Study Group.  As noted in Resolution 16:

 

For the purpose of this Study Group, Privacy Technology includes the policies and processes concerned with the collection, use, storage, access, flow, sharing and destruction of "personally identifiable information".

 

The terms of reference for the JTC 1 Study Group on Privacy Technology are as follows:

 

* Assess how JTC 1 activities are relevant to the development and publication of the standards necessary to support the implementation of privacy policies, processes and systems;

 

* Assess how the Privacy Technology activities of organizations external to JTC 1 (Consortia, Fora, CEN/ISSS, ITU-T) may benefit from JTC 1 involvement. This should include as a minimum the following consortia and fora:

 

    * Liberty Alliance

    * OASIS

    * The Open Group

    * W3C

    * IETF

    * ISSEA

    * ISTPA

    * OECD

 

JTC 1 involvement may include:

 

* Publication, through fast-tracks, PAS submissions or other means, of stabilized and de facto Privacy Technology and infrastructure standards as formal international standards.

* Contributing to ensure interoperability and consistency between the various implementations from consortia and other groups.

* Contributing, if required, to defining methods of conformity assessment.

* Harmonization and adaptation of existing JTC 1 work where necessary.

* Initiate, if judged necessary, any relevant activities within existing JTC 1 SCs that would increase JTC 1 contribution to Privacy Technology standardization activities. These activities should be initiated as soon as they are identified.

*Assist, if judged necessary, consortia and fora in establishing the appropriate liaison with JTC 1. The establishment of these liaisons should be initiated as soon as they are identified.

 

 

Requested Action

 

In anticipation of the formation of an INCITS Ad Hoc on Privacy Technology at the January 2004 meeting of the INCITS Executive Board, Executive Board members and INCITS Technical Committee Chairmen are invited to nominate representatives to an INCITS Ad Hoc on Privacy Technology.  Nominations should be submitted to the INCITS Secretariat (jgarner@itic.org) not later than January 16, 2004.