IEEE- P2600 PP Validation Suggested Process and Update Members: Ron Nevo, Brian Smithson, Alan Sukert, Farrell Lee October 2007

Proposed Time Line Draft PPs needed (to send with RFPs) by 10/2007 (after October meeting) RFP send out by 11/5/2007 after October meeting Companies commitment to contribute to the process by 11/15/07 Ask for RFP responses by 12/15/2007 Collect money by end 12 ‘07, very early Jan ‘08 Decision by 2/2008 (at Feb meeting or sooner) Start formal evaluation (with "final" PPs) 1Q ‘08

How to Acknowledge contributors

◦Lexmark - yes ◦HP- yes? ◦Canon- yes? ◦Ricoh- yes ◦InfoPrint- not present ◦Sharp- yes ◦Konica-Minolta- ? ◦Toshiba- ? ◦OKI- leaning yes ◦Oce- not present ◦Kyocera- ? ◦Fuji-Xerox- ? ◦Xerox- yes ◦Equitrac- not present Who are the Sponsors

CC laboratories ◦L3 communications ◦CSC ◦Atsec ◦CygnaCom ◦EWA (Canada) ◦COACT ◦Domus (Canada) ◦SAIC ◦SAVVIS ◦ARCA ◦Booz Allen ◦TÜV Informationstechnik GmbH ◦JEITA (JEITA.OR.JP) ◦MHIR ◦ECSEC

Which PPs we need to validate? We will send (PP-A, B) We will ask for quote for (PP-C, D)

IEEE ROLES Collect Contribution Money, Invoice Contributors and manage the account. IEEE contact: Chris Vigil - Manager, Funded Services ◦Phone: ◦Cell: Manage the RFP process: send RFPs, collect the submissions, create a tracking spreadsheet (date and time documents received), and send the submissions to the WG designated contact. ◦IEEE contact: Noelle Humenick, Client Services IEEE Charge 10k to cover their involvements

Closed Items IEEE RFP guidance or example –No Guidance –we have RFP A way to invoice contributors for the validation process – We have by IEEE A way for IEEE to collect contributors money- We have by IEEE A way to pay for Lab invoices –We have by IEEE A way to acknowledge contributors for supporting and contributing to the IEEE Standard validation.(We have see previous slide)

RFP – CC Vendor Requirements ◦Must have PP evaluating experience ◦Must have MFD experience ◦Must have experience evaluating products with NIAP ◦Experience certifying products under multiple schemes is highly desirable but not mandatory RFP is available