RE: [election-services] EML v6 : EAC REQUIREMENTS

From
Zelechoski, Peter <>
Date
2009-05-13T18:10:14+00:00
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RE: [election-services] EML v6 : EAC REQUIREMENTS
David -

 

The test suites that are being developed are to enhance 
the current standards evaluation/certification process.  There is an 
established, current standard.  It is being used to evaluate all vendor 
systems that are submitted for review by the Independent Test Authorities that 
the EAC recognizes.  Those ITAs have been free to build their own test 
plans/scripts in the past, leading to a wide variance in the plans.  To be 
more consistent, they are trying to build formal ones that all ITAs must use for 
all submitted systems.  A vast majority of the review is machine and 
security centric; the interchange of information is only a portion of the 
standard and of the review.

 

- Peter

From: David RR Webber (XML) 
[mailto:] 
Sent: 2009-05-13 9:00 AM
To: 
Joseph Lorenzo Hall
Cc: eml
Subject: RE: [election-services] 
EML v6 : EAC REQUIREMENTS

Joe,

I'm deeply puzzled by this.  How do you develop test suites if you 
have not selected a standard yet?!?!?!

Perhaps someone from NIST can explain how this is at all possible?

Thanks, DW 

 

  
<SNIP>  Right now the TGDC has
delivered it's 
  recommendations to the EAC and is now focused on test
suites, not more 
  standards. best, Joe

-- 
Joseph Lorenzo Hall
ACCURATE 
  Postdoctoral Research Associate
UC Berkeley School of 
  Information
Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy
http://josephhall.org/

  
</SNIP>
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