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| Abstracts of Topics for Presentations by INCITS Technical Experts | Please see the complete list of INCITS Technical Committees for additional subject areas of expertise. Contact the INCITS Secretariat for further information at incits@itic.org |
| BIOMETRICS | Open-systems biometric standards are urgently needed in order to accelerate the deployment of reliable security solutions for Homeland Defense, as well as to help prevent identity theft. They can also support emergency response systems, immigration programs, healthcare, retail, and more. INCITS representatives from Technical Committee M1 (generic biometrics standards) can explore the types of standards required for
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| CRYPTOGRAPHY | Cryptographic mechanisms support the protection of data against unauthorized disclosure or modification, entity authentication, and non-repudiation functions. INCITS representatives from Technical Committee T4 can explain how the security and reliability of such mechanisms are directly dependent on the cryptographic modules in which they are implemented. They bring current information on the evolving international standard that will be used to specify cryptographic-based security mechanisms for the protection of sensitive or valuable data. The security requirements cover areas related to the secure design and implementation of a cryptographic module.
For a technical audience, they can cover specific areas related to this design, including cryptographic module specification; cryptographic module ports and interfaces; roles, services, and authentication; physical security; operational environment; cryptographic key management; self-tests; design assurance; and mitigation of other attacks.
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| GEOSPATIAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS | Development of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) Framework has been hindered by the lack of a data content standard for the seven NSDI Framework data themes: real property, earth's surface, waterways and terrestrial surfaces, coordination of all geographic data, official jurisdictional boundaries, surface water, and characteristics of the transportation system). INCITS representatives from Technical Committee L1 can present their new project-a central part of the solution: Geographic Information Framework Data Content Standards. These GIS framework standards support the Geospatial One-Stop, which is part of the Office of Management and Budget's e-government initiative to accelerate federal government improvements in effectiveness, efficiency, and customer service.
Presentations can be customized for business, policy, and technical audiences.
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| MASS STORAGE DEVICES | Hot emerging technologies, such as Infiniband, PCI Express, and HyperTransport, have given rise to the need for supporting AT Attachment standards. INCITS representatives from Technical Committee T13 can present their work on a new BIOS Interface to access mass storage devices. BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services 3 (EDD-3) Standard, which builds on EDD-2 to address new storage technologies, will serve an extremely large market-all personal computer systems utilizing ATA/ATAPI, SCSI, Fibre Channel, 1394, Infiniband, PCI Express, USB, Serial ATA, and other buses to which disc drives can be attached.
This is a somewhat technical presentation that examines important features of the proposed BIOS interface, including accessing devices where the host has up to 64 bits of address space and the device has more than 28 bits of address space; providing data read and write capability; documentation for cylinder-head-sector (CHS) BIOS interfaces; documentation for logical-block address (LBA) BIOS interfaces; and support for ATA and ATAPI on several host buses.
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