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Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC) Meeting
December 4-5, 2006, Green Auditorium
NIST Gaithersburg, Md.
AGENDA

Monday, December 4, 2006

8:55 AM -- Administrative and Safety Issues (Allan Eustis, NIST)

9:00 AM -- Call to Order and Administrative Details (Dr. William Jeffrey, NIST)

• Pledge of Allegiance
• Determination of a quorum (Phillip Greene, DOC)
• Motion to adopt meeting agenda
• Motion to accept minutes of the March 29, 2006 meeting of the TGDC
• HAVA Mandate and NIST's Role
• Review of meeting logistics

9:15 AM -- EAC Commissioners address TGDC (EAC)

• Comments by EAC Commissioners
• Questions and Discussion

9:45 AM -- Update and status of VVSG 2007 and NIST/EAC Activities (Mark Skall & John Wack, NIST)

• Summary of activities since March 2006 TGDC Plenary Session
• Overview of VVSG 2007- Structure and Status
• Questions and Discussion
  

10:15 AM -- BREAK

10:30AM -- Security and Transparency Subcommittee (STS) Preliminary Reports and Issues for VVSG 2007 (Curt Barker, John Wack, Ron Rivest (MIT), John Kelsey, Nelson Hastings, NIST)

• Auditing, Software Independent systems, and the Innovation Class
• Restructuring Security Components for VVSG 2007
• Changes in security requirements
  • Wireless Recommendations
  • Voter Verified Paper Record (VVPR) Issues and Recommendations
  • Setup Validation Recommendations
  • Securing Electronic Records Recommendations
• Discussion

1:00 PM -- LUNCH

2:00 PM -- Security and Transparency Subcommittee (STS) Preliminary Reports and Issues for VVSG 2007- Continued (Curt Barker, John Wack , Ron Rivest (MIT), John Kelsey, Nelson Hastings, NIST)

2:30 PM -- Core Requirements and Testing (CRT) Subcommittee Preliminary Reports and Issues for VVSG 2007 (Alan Goldfine, David Flater, NIST)

• Reliability and Mean Time Between Failure
• Testing
• Quality Assurance
• Coding Conventions
• Discussion

3:30 PM -- BREAK

3:45 PM -- Core Requirements and Testing (CRT) Subcommittee Preliminary Reports and Issues for VVSG 2007 - Continued (Alan Goldfine, David Flater, NIST)

5:30 PM -- ADJOURN

Tuesday, December 5, 2006

8:25 AM -- Administrative and Safety Issues (Allan Eustis, NIST)

8:30 AM -- Call to Order and Administrative Details (Dr. William Jeffrey, NIST)

• Pledge of Allegiance
• Determination of a quorum (Phillip Greene, DOC)

8:45 AM -- Core Requirements and Testing (CRT) Subcommittee Preliminary Reports and Issues for VVSG 2007 - continued (Alan Goldfine, David Flater, NIST)

9:15 AM -- Human Factors and Privacy (HFP) Subcommittee Preliminary Reports and Issues for VVSG 2007 (Sharon Laskowski, NIST)

• VVSG 2007 (Section 3) Usability and Accessibility Requirements Update
• Usability Research Update
  

10:15 AM -- BREAK

10:30AM -- Human Factors and Privacy (HFP) Subcommittee Preliminary Reports and Issues for VVSG 2007- Continued (Sharon Laskowski, NIST)

11:30 AM -- LUNCH

12:30 PM -- Introduction of resolutions and discussion by the TGDC
(Dr. William Jeffrey, NIST)

• Presentation
• Discussion

2:25 PM -- Dates for next TGDC meetings

2:30 PM -- ADJOURN

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