During the 12th IDESG Plenary Meeting in Atlanta, GTRI NSTIC Trustmark Pilot Project Principal Investigator John Wandelt delivered a 25-minute briefing on the trustmark pilot, during which he provided IDESG members with an update on our recent progress, including initial results from the rollout of trustmarks within the NIEF community during the fall of 2014 and winter of 2015. Video of the briefing is available below. Also, slides from the talk (in PDF format) are available for download here.
Publication of First Trustmark Definitions
Today we are excited to announce the publication of our first round of Trustmark Definitions (TDs) here on the trustmark website. These TDs are the result of many months’ work by our team, including analysis of NIEF requirements, reconciliation of NIEF requirements with other trust frameworks (mostly FICAM), and development of a standard normative structure for TDs.
As we discuss on our technical framework page, a TD is much like a normative specification, but with several important differences. First, a TD includes not only a list of conformance criteria that the Trustmark Recipient (TR) must meet, but also a list of assessment steps that an independent 3rd-party Trustmark Provider (TP) must follow to determine whether the TR conforms to the TD as required. Second, a TD is required to be formatted in a standard structure that permits automated processing by software tools.
Today we are publishing 60 TDs, representing the majority of the NIEF trust framework requirements that we will leverage when we begin issuing actual trustmarks as part of our operational pilot later this year. More TDs are likely to come in the next few months, as we refine both the TDs’ content and the normative specification for TDs, which defines a standard structure to which TDs must conform. Each TD is available in two formats: human-readable HTML and machine-readable XML. All TDs are currently marked as “Version 0.1”, to indicate that they are still somewhat in flux and subject to change.
You can find the TDs here. As always, feedback is welcome and encouraged. Please contact us at TrustmarkFeedback@gtri.gatech.edu if you have any questions or comments.
Trustmark Pilot Briefing at 9th IDESG Plenary Meeting
During the 9th IDESG Plenary Meeting in Gaithersburg, MD, GTRI’s NSTIC Trustmark Pilot Project Principal Investigator John Wandelt delivered an 18-minute webinar briefing on the trustmark pilot, during which he provided IDESG members with an update on the past six months of our progress, including initial lessons learned and our plans to begin rolling out operational trustmarks within the NIEF community during the fall of 2014. Video of the briefing is available below. Also, slides from the talk (in PDF format) are available for download here.
Video from Trustmark BOF Session at 8th Plenary
The video from our Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) session at the 8th IDESG Plenary has been made available on YouTube by the IDESG Secretariat. The session covered the topic of “Machine-Understandable Trustmarks”. The video is available below. Please note that the audio does not seem to be working properly for the first minute of the video, but after that point it is ok.