NTIA to Host Meeting on Software Component Transparency – 4-15-20

Today the Department of Commerce’ National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) published a meeting notice the Federal Register (85 FR 15435-15436) concerning the “Multistakeholder Process on Promoting Software Component Transparency”. This will be a virtual meeting on April 15^th, 2020 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm EDT.

NTIA acts as the host for the Multistakeholder process that is looking at the security issues related to the use of third-party components in software development. The process kicked off in July 2018. The “NTIA Software Component Transparency” web site provides a good overview of the multiple meetings that have been held since that date as well as a look at the ongoing activities of the various working groups.

According to today’s notice:

“The main objectives of the April 15, 2020, meeting are to share progress from the working groups; to give feedback on the ongoing work around technical challenges, tooling, demonstrations, and awareness and adoption; and to begin discussions around potential guidance or playbook documents.”

Details on how to participate in the virtual meeting will be published on the Software Component Transparency web site closer to the meeting date. The meeting will be open to the public on a first-com-first-serve basis.

NTIA Software Component Transparency Meeting – 11-18-19

Today the DOC’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) published a meeting notice in the Federal Register (84 FR 56446-56447) for a “Multistakeholder Process on Promoting Software Component Transparency” meeting to be held on November 18^th, 2019 in Washington, DC.

According to the notice:

“The main objectives of the November 18, 2019, meeting are to finalize and identify next steps in this effort, including how progress can be made on extending and refining the basic model, cataloging tooling needs and resources, and promoting awareness and adoption of stakeholder work.”

The Stakeholders and a number of working groups have been conducting meetings on this topic since the first meeting was announced in 2018. The NTIA Software Component Transparency web page contains detailed information and presentations from those meetings.

The meeting will be open to the public on a first-come seating basis. It does not appear that the meeting will be web cast.