The IEEE and its OpenStand standards process represent...
The IEEE and its OpenStand standards process represent a “radical turn toward universally open and fully transparent standardization processes, in particular in the domain of cyber security,” the IEEE Standards Association said in a statement Monday. Transparent standards processes are…
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necessary to correct the “observed current erosion of trust in the technical foundations of the Internet,” the group said. “While the OpenStand principles cannot ensure that all participants are acting in good faith, rigorous governance processes, run by standardization volunteers and professional staff of the involved standardization organizations, are designed and implemented to prevent a subversion of the principles or manipulation of the standardization process” (http://bit.ly/GXyzlr). The statement, issued to mark World Standards Day, didn’t directly reference a particular instance of eroding trust. It was released a little over a month after news reports claimed the National Security Agency had interfered in the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s development of an encryption standard to facilitate surveillance (CD Sept 9 p8). NIST later reopened the public comment period on its 800-90 series on random bit generators as a result of the controversy (CD Sept 11 p10).