Thursday: Boulder hosts national voting standards meeting - TGDC

[Neal McBurnett <neal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Reminder - as previously noted (see below), you should sign up by
Monday the 26th if you want to attend (for free!) the meeting this
Thursday in Boulder of the TGDC - Technical Guidelines Development
Committee of the US Election Assistance Commission.

The documents they will review are now available at

 http://vote.nist.gov/meeting20050929.htm

including, e.g.

 # Draft Voluntary Voting System Guidelines
 # Preliminary Report: Human Factors and Privacy
 # Preliminary Report: Security
    * Open Ended Testing
    * Threat Analysis
 # Preliminary Report: Core Requirements 
    * Draft Core Requirements and Testing (Initial Draft)
    * Issues and Open Questions
    * VVSG Performance and Workmanship Requirements
    * Sharing Information Regarding Certification of Voting Systems
    * Maintenance of the VVSG

This is a great chance to talk to the very capable technical folks at
NIST and elsewhere who understand the sorts of issues many of us have
tried to raise with less-clueful politicians.

Hope to see you there,

Neal McBurnett                 http://bcn.boulder.co.us/~neal/
Signed and/or sealed mail encouraged.  GPG/PGP Keyid: 2C9EBA60

On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 10:19:21PM -0600, Some Guy wrote:
>    Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 08:40:11 -0400
>    To: voting@xxxxxxxx
>    From: Allan Eustis <allan.eustis@xxxxxxxx>
>    Subject: Upcoming  9/29 TGDC Meeting and  10/7 NIST Threat Analysis
>      Workshop
> 
>    Dear Election Community Member:
> 
>                I want to update you on two upcoming HAVA-related meetings
>    that  the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is
>    coordinating.
> 
>               The Technical Guidelines Development Committee will meet on
>    September 29, 2005 at the NIST facility in Boulder Colorado.  The meeting
>    will be web cast as well. Registration  information on this public meeting
>    is available at: http://www.vote.nist.gov/tgdc_plenary20050929.htm.
>    Registration deadline is September 26, 2005.
> 
>          In addition, (NIST) will host a full-day workshop in Gaithersburg,
>    Maryland, on October 7, 2005 entitled "Developing an Analysis of Threats
>    to Voting Systems." The goal of the workshop is to solicit and gather
>    threat analysis material relevant to voting systems. The results of the
>    workshop will assist in driving the creation of requirements for future
>    voting systems standards.
> 
>    Registration for this workshop is now open.  Please see
>    http://vote.nist.gov/threats/register.htm in order to complete the on line
>    registration form.  Other registration details appear on this page as
>    well. The registration deadline is September 30, 2005.
> 
>    Best Regards
> 
>    The contents of this e-mail are confidential and pre-decisional
>    Allan C. Eustis
>     NIST Voting Systems Standards
>    Technology Building 225 Room B257
>    100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8901
>     Gaithersburg , Md.  20899-8901