[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 73 (Tuesday, April 17, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19178-19179]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-7287]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institute of Standards and Technology


Notice of Meeting Regarding IPv6 Test Materials for the United 
States Government

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Department of 
Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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SUMMARY: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 
Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) invites interested parties to 
attend a meeting pertaining to Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) Test 
Materials for the United States Government.
    NIST will host a meeting open to the public on May 4th, 2007, in 
Lecture Room B of building 101 at 9 am to discuss establishing a 
framework for a sound and viable testing methodology for Internet 
Protocol version 6. The discussion will include: USG requirements for 
testing, attributes of potential administrative frameworks for test 
programs, potential sources of test suites to serve as a technical 
basis for a testing program, and potential test providers who could 
carry out and/or provide services in support of such programs.

DATES: The public meeting will be held on May 4th, 2007 at 9 a.m. 
Parties wishing to submit information should send their materials to 
NIST no later than April 30, 2007.

ADDRESSES: The public meeting will be held at: NIST Administration 
Building, 100 Bureau Drive, Lecture Room B, Gaithersburg, MD 20899. 
Submissions of information should be sent to: [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stephen Nightingale, [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Following publication of NIST Special 
Publication 500-267 A Profile for IPv6 in the Federal Government--
Version 1.0, NIST has begun to consider the feasibility and form of a 
possible testing program to demonstrate claims of compliance. Such a 
testing program might have two components:
    (1) Qualified test laboratories testing to public domain test 
suites and relevant test methods, and
    (2) An Approved Products List.
    The approved products list could identify Hosts, Routers and 
Network Protection Devices (including Firewalls) that have passed 
interoperability testing and conformance testing.
    The objective of the meeting is to determine the following 
information:
    (1) Whether there are test Suites for interoperability and 
conformance that can be placed in the public domain, free from 
intellectual property rights or other encumbrance and validated against 
the specifications, for use as the standard reference test suite for 
the U.S. Government IPv6 Profile.
    (2) What test methods, being devices or procedural systems, can be 
validated in conjunction with the standard reference test suites.
    (3) Whether there are testing facilities compliant with, or 
intending to be compliant with, ISO 17025 General Requirements for the 
Competence of Calibration and Testing Laboratories, which may conduct 
interoperability and

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conformance testing of all or any integral part of the IPv6 Profile, in 
a forum open to all qualified applicants.
    Other interested parties are also invited to submit written 
statements. All parties desiring to attend the meeting must register in 
advance, to help co-ordinate access to the NIST campus.
    Draft NIST SP 500-267, the IPv6 profile, remains available 
electronically at http://www.antd.nist.gov/usgv6-v1-draft.pdf.

    Dated: April 12, 2007.
William Jeffrey,
Director.
 [FR Doc. E7-7287 Filed 4-16-07; 8:45 am]
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