[IPsec] Announcing the USGv6 Testing Meeting at NIST

["Frankel, Sheila E." <[e-mail]>]

Announcing the USGv6 Testing Meeting at NIST.

To be held on Thursday May 20th 2010 in the AML Conference Room, 
Building 215 Room C103, from 9am till 5pm.

Following publication of the USG Profile NIST has established a testing 
program to determine products' compliance to USGv6 capabilities. There 
are at present 2 accreditors and 2 accredited test laboratories enrolled 
in the program, with more test laboratories in consideration.  July 2010 
marks the date when USG Federal Agencies begin to make IT acquisitions 
using the USGv6 profile version 1.0.  We wanted to host a public meeting 
to give:
    - a review of how the testing program is operating.
    - an opportunity for feedback from Stakeholders, including test 
laboratories, product vendors and USG Agencies.

Accordingly we seek discussion inputs to include:
    - statements from accredited and prospective test laboratories.
    - statements/questions and issues from Agencies and users.
    - statements, questions and issues from USGv6 product vendors.

Issues are expected to include:
    - testing operations and interlaboratory comparisons.
    - USGv6 capabilities and requirements.
    - Suppliers Declaration of Conformity.

There will also be some discussion of the forthcoming USGv6 profile 
version 2.  A full Agenda will be posted to signed up attendees closer 
to the day of the meeting.  Due to room size limitations there can be a 
maximum of about 70 participants at this meeting, and attendance from 
any one company may need to be limited. Reply to 
[e-mail] if you wish to participate, giving full 
name, company affiliation, title, contact details and whether you are a 
U.S. citizen. Please also let us know if you have issues you wish to 
present, with a maximum of 2 or 3 slides, and speaking time limited 
depending on the response.

For further information, please contact Stephen Nightingale ([e-mail])