Information Systems Security Board
John Young
jya at pipeline.com
Thu Apr 10 04:16:35 PDT 1997
On December 13, 1996, representatives from The National
Information Infrastructure (NII) Task Force of The President's
National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee
(NSTAC) held a meeting at Steptoe & Johnson in Washington, D.C.
to discuss industry interest in developing an industry-run
Information Systems Security Board (ISSB).
Stewart Baker of Steptoe & Johnson discussed the antitrust laws
and their application to the meeting, with particular emphasis on
the need to avoid discussion of competitive conditions and to show
openness to all interested participants.
Guy Copeland, a representative from the Task Force, briefly
discussed the ISSB model and the purposes of the meeting. Will
Ozier, Chairman of the GSSP Committee, next discussed the efforts
of the Generally Accepted System Security Principles (GSSP) project.
Several representatives from the Administration expressed support
for the concept of the ISSB. These representatives also indicated
that the Administration would like private industry to take the
lead in this area and is more than willing to take "a back seat"
to such an effort. These representatives did request for periodic
updates on any industry driven initiative in this area.
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For full report and links to background documents:
http://jya.com/issb.htm
Thanks to RH.
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