M1/03-0612
Source: INCITS M1 Chairman
Call for Participants - INCITS
Ad Hoc on Privacy Technology
Nomination of Representatives
Due
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InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards
INCITS
Secretariat, Information Technology Industry Council (ITI)
Telephone
202-737-8888; Fax 202-638-4922;
Email:
incits@itic.org
Date:
Responses
Due:
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
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:
*
* 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