Site Security Handbook (ssh) Charter

NOTE: This charter is accurate as of the 37th IETF Meeting in San Jose. It may now be out-of-date. (Consider this a "snapshot" of the working group from that meeting.) Up-to-date charters for all active working groups can be found elsewhere in this Web server.

Chair(s)

Barbara Fraser <byf@cert.org>

User Services Area Director(s):

Joyce Reynolds <jkrey@isi.edu>

Mailing List Information

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Description of Working Group

The Site Security Handbook Working Group is chartered to create two documents: (1) a revised handbook that will help system and network administrators develop their own site-specific policies and procedures to deal with computer security problems and their prevention and (2) a new handbook for users. The text of these documents will be developed from the existing RFC 1244, plus needed revisions and additions.

Goals and Milestones

Done: Meet at the San Jose IETF and (1) make a decision about which document to produce first, (2) create an SSH editorial board and (3) create a draft outline of the first document.
Done: Prepare a final outline of the first document.
Done: Meet at the Danvers IETF and create a rough draft of the first document.
May 95: Submit the first document as an Internet-Draft, with comment and review happening on the SSH mailing list.
Jul 95: Submit first document as an Internet-Draft.
Done: Meet at the Stockholm IETF meeting and create an outline for the second document.
Dec 95: Submit the second draft of the first document as an Internet-Draft.
Dec 95: Meet at IETF and review the second Internet-Draft of the first document.
Feb 96: Submit a revised Internet-Draft of the first document, with review happening on the SSH list.
Mar 96: Meet at IETF and do a final review of the Internet-Draft of the first document. Develop outline for second document.
Apr 96: Submit Internet-Draft of first document to IESG for publication as Informational RFC.
May 96: Submit draft of second document to Internet-Drafts.
Jun 96: Meet at IETF to review and edit draft.
Jul 96: Syvmit second draft of document to Internet-Drafts.
Oct 96: Submit final version of document to Internet-Drafts.
Dec 96: Submit Internet-Draft of second document to IESG for publication as an Informational RFC.