[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 117 (Friday, June 19, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29183-29184]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-14459]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institute of Standards and Technology


Announcing a Workshop on the Protocol for Lightweight 
Authentication of Identity (PLAID)

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of public workshop.

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SUMMARY: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in 
cooperation with the Australian Federal Government agency, Centrelink, 
will hold a public workshop on July 13-15, 2009, at the NIST 
Gaithersburg campus. The workshop is open to the public but requires 
registration. The goal of the 3-day workshop is to explore potential 
commercial implementations of the Protocol for Lightweight 
Authentication of Identity (PLAID) and the potential usefulness of this 
protocol to U.S. Federal agencies.
    PLAID public resources are available from the following site: 
http://www.govdex.gov.au.
    The principle of the workshop is that each attending vendor has two 
days, with the assistance of Centrelink, to ``port'' existing source 
code, or develop new code for their device or card. All the information 
vendors need will be available to them ahead of the workshop on the 
http://www.govdex.gov.au site. Vendors may obtain as much or as little 
assistance as they please from other vendors in the workshop. (Card 
vendors might, for instance, assist device vendors.)
    On the third day, end-users are invited to view the efforts of all 
of the vendors. Each vendor will use their space to demonstrate their 
PLAID implementation to attendees. Attendees are invited to interact 
with the vendors and discuss their PLAID implementation.

DATES: The workshop will be held on July 13-15, 2009, 9 a.m. till 5 
p.m.

ADDRESSES: The workshop will be held in the Employees' Lounge and the 
Poster Hallway in the Administration Building on the NIST Gaithersburg 
campus, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899. Please note 
registration and admittance instructions under the SUPPLEMENTARY 
INFORMATION section of this notice.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tanya Brewer, T: (301) 975-4534, E: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in 
cooperation with the Australian Federal Government agency, Centrelink, 
will hold a public workshop on July 13-15, 2009, at the NIST 
Gaithersburg campus. The workshop is open to the public but requires 
registration. The goal of the 3-day workshop is to explore potential 
commercial implementations of the Protocol for Lightweight 
Authentication of Identity (PLAID) and the potential usefulness of this 
protocol to U.S. Federal agencies.
    PLAID public resources are available from the following site: 
http://www.govdex.gov.au. The principle of the workshop is that each 
attending vendor has two days, with the assistance of Centrelink, to 
``port'' existing source code, or develop new code for their device or 
card. All the information vendors need will be available to them ahead 
of the workshop on the www.govdex.gov.au site. Vendors may obtain as 
much or as little assistance as they please from other vendors in the 
workshop. (Card vendors might, for instance, assist device vendors.)
    On the third day, end-users are invited to view the efforts of all 
of the vendors. Each vendor will use their space to demonstrate their 
PLAID implementation to attendees. Attendees are invited to interact 
with the vendors and discuss their PLAID implementation.
    This workshop is open to the public, but all attendees, vendors and 
others, must pre-register in advance. All visitors to the NIST campus 
are required to register in advance. No late or same-day registrations 
will be accepted for this reason. All attendees must present a 
government-issued ID when gaining access to the campus. There is no 
registration fee. Please submit your name, time of arrival, e-mail 
address and phone number to Tanya Brewer or Annie Sokol, and one of 
them will provide you with further logistics information. Non-U.S. 
citizens must also submit their country of citizenship, title, 
employer/sponsor, and address. The registration deadline is July 7, 
2009. Tanya Brewer's e-mail address is

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[email protected], and Annie Sokol's is [email protected].

    Dated: June 15, 2009.
Patrick Gallagher,
Deputy Director.
[FR Doc. E9-14459 Filed 6-18-09; 8:45 am]
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