Open Meeting of the Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board, 72063-72064 [2013-28789]

Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 78, No. 231 / Monday, December 2, 2013 / Notices emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with NOTICES separate, stand-alone submission, and clarifies the circumstances under which the Department will grant untimelyfiled requests for the extension of time limits. These modifications are effective for all segments initiated on or after October 21, 2013. Please review the final rule, available at https:// www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2013-09– 20/html/2013-22853 .htm, prior to submitting factual information in these segments. Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.103(d), the Department will maintain and make available a service list for these proceedings. To facilitate the timely preparation of the service list(s), it is requested that those seeking recognition as interested parties to a proceeding contact the Department in writing within 10 days of the publication of the Notice of Initiation. 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Please consult the Department’s regulations for information regarding the Department’s conduct of Sunset Reviews. Please consult the Department’s regulations at 19 CFR part 351 for definitions of terms and for other general information concerning antidumping and countervailing duty proceedings at the Department. This notice of initiation is being published in accordance with section 751(c) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.218(c). Dated: November 25, 2013. Christian Marsh, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Operations. [FR Doc. 2013–28807 Filed 11–29–13; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE National Institute of Standards and Technology Open Meeting of the Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board National Institute of Standards and Technology, Commerce. AGENCY: ACTION: Notice. The Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB) will meet Thursday, December 19, 2013, from 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, and Friday, December 20, 2013, from 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. All sessions will be open to the public. SUMMARY: The meeting will be held on Thursday, December 19, 2013, from 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, and Friday, December 20, 2013, from 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. DATES: The meeting will be held at Microsoft Innovation & Policy Center, 901 K Street NW., Suite 1100, Washington, DC 20001 (TEL. 202–263– 5900). Please note admittance instructions under the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this notice. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Annie Sokol, Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Mail Stop 8930, Gaithersburg, MD 20899–8930, telephone: (301) 975– 2006, or by email at: annie.sokol@ nist.gov. ADDRESSES: PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 72063 Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended, 5 U.S.C. App., notice is hereby given that the Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB) will meet Thursday, December 19, 2013, from 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, and Friday, December 20, 2013, from 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. All sessions will be open to the public. The ISPAB is authorized by 15 U.S.C. 278g–4, as amended, and advises the Secretary of Commerce, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and the Director of NIST on information security and privacy issues pertaining to federal computer systems. Details regarding the ISPAB’s activities are available at https://csrc.nist.gov/ groups/SMA/ispab/. The agenda is expected to include the following items: —Cybersecurity • Executive Order 13636, Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity (78 FR 11737, February 19, 2013); • Development of New Cybersecurity Framework; • Request for Information (RFI)— Developing a Framework to Improve Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity (78 FR 13024, February 26, 2013); • Notice of Inquiry (NOI)—Incentives to Adopt Improved Cybersecurity Practices (78 FR 18954, March 28, 2013), —Update on Legislative proposals relating to information security and privacy, —Information Sharing Update: CNCI–5 ISA Brief—Information Security, —National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) Updates, —Regulatory updates of Embedded Software Security Updates, —Discussion on cryptography, —Update on Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), and —Update on NIST Computer Security Division. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Note that agenda items may change without notice because of possible unexpected schedule conflicts of presenters. The final agenda will be posted on the Web site indicated above. Seating will be available for the public and media. Public Participation: The ISPAB agenda will include a period of time, not to exceed thirty minutes, for oral comments from the public (Friday, December 20, 2013, between 9:00 a.m. and 9:30 a.m.). Speakers will be selected on a first-come, first-served basis. Each speaker will be limited to five minutes. Questions from the public will not be considered during this period. Members E:\FR\FM\02DEN1.SGM 02DEN1 72064 Federal Register / Vol. 78, No. 231 / Monday, December 2, 2013 / Notices of the public who are interested in speaking are requested to contact Annie Sokol at the contact information indicated in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this notice. Speakers who wish to expand upon their oral statements, those who had wished to speak but could not be accommodated on the agenda, and those who were unable to attend in person are invited to submit written statements. In addition, written statements are invited and may be submitted to the ISPAB at any time. All written statements should be directed to the ISPAB Secretariat, Information Technology Laboratory, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8930, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899–8930. All visitors to this meeting are requested to pre-register to be admitted. Please submit your name, time of arrival, and email address to Annie Sokol, annie.sokol@nist.gov, by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Friday, December 13, 2013. Dated: November 22, 2013. Willie E. May, Associate Director for Laboratory Programs. [FR Doc. 2013–28789 Filed 11–29–13; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510–13–P DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE United States Patent and Trademark Office [Docket No. PTO–C–2013–0039] Request for Comments on Methods for Studying the Diversity of Patent Applicants United States Patent and Trademark Office, Commerce. ACTION: Request for Comments. AGENCY: The United States Patent and Trademark Office (‘‘USPTO’’ or ‘‘the Office’’) is interested in gathering information on approaches for studying the diversity of patent applicants in accordance with research methodology developed as required by the America Invents Act (AIA or Act). To assist in gathering this information, the USPTO invites the public to provide comments on collecting information on the diversity of patent applicants consistent with the AIA. Written Comments: Written comments should be sent by email to saurabh.vishnubhakat@uspto.gov. Comments may also be submitted by postal mail addressed to Saurabh Vishnubhakat, Expert Advisor, Office of Chief Economist, United States Patent emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with NOTICES SUMMARY: VerDate Mar<15>2010 20:41 Nov 29, 2013 Jkt 232001 and Trademark Office, Mail Stop External Affairs, P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313–1450. Although comments may be submitted by postal mail, the USPTO prefers to receive comments via email. The deadline for receipt of written comments is January 31, 2014. Written comments should be identified in the subject line of the email or postal mailing as ‘‘Diversity of Patent Applicants.’’ Because written comments will be made available for public inspection, information that a respondent does not desire to be made public, such as a telephone number, should not be included in the written comments. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Saurabh Vishnubhakat, Expert Advisor, Office of Chief Economist, by telephone at (571) 272–6900, or by email at saurabh.vishnubhakat@uspto.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 29 of the AIA charged the Director of the USPTO with ‘‘establish[ing] methods for studying the diversity of patent applicants, including those applicants who are minorities, women, or veterans’’ no later than six months after the enactment of the Act (i.e., by March 16, 2012). This section further provided that the Director shall not use the results of such study to provide any preferential treatment to patent applicants. The USPTO developed and timely published a methodology to study important issues related to applicant diversity. See ‘‘Diversity of Applicant Methodology’’ (March 16, 2012) on USPTO Web site for AIA Implementation (under ‘‘Programs’’). This methodology respects the interests of individuals and organizations in protecting private information. It underscores the Office’s sensitivity to this issue by taking an iterative, careful approach to potentially sensitive information from patent applicants, and includes input from the public. The methodology includes two initial steps: (1) Cooperate with the U.S. Census Bureau (‘‘Census’’) to analyze currently available public information data; and (2) seek public comment on whether or how to collect additional information. This Request for Comments constitutes the second stop in the methodology. As to the first step in the methodology, the USPTO cooperated with Census to analyze currently available public information data. Consistent with the language and legislative history of Section 29 of the AIA, the analysis sought: (1) To describe the overall, cumulative (i.e., highly aggregated) demographic characteristics, such as race, gender, age, and PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 geography, of inventors as a group; and (2) to describe the overall, cumulative (i.e., highly aggregated) business characteristics, such as revenues, number of employees, and geography, for companies as a group. Note that this analysis gathered and evaluated cumulative data on groups of individuals and companies; this analysis did not gather and evaluate data in a manner that would identify any particular individual or company. The analysis sought to match certain public information in USPTO files with confidential census information in Census files. Consistent with AIA Section 29, USPTO’s analysis aimed to identify group demographics like race, gender and age of inventors in patents granted in 2005–2006; USPTO did not seek or obtain such demographic information for any particular inventor. By using existing data and cooperating with Census, the USPTO could avoid any additional burden on applicants while also protecting the identity of particular individuals and companies. This is because Census would only share with USPTO the highly aggregated group data (i.e., devoid of any personal identifying information). Because sensitive Census information concerning diversity characteristics is protected under Title 13, United States Code, once the USPTO information becomes comingled with Census data, that comingled data is confidential under Title 13 and cannot be released. The data provided by USPTO for this analysis consisted only of certain public information provided on the face of patents granted between January 1, 2005, and December 31, 2006. This information was the name and address (generally only the town and state) of the inventor. As stated above, USPTO provided this public information to Census, and Census then confidentially attempted to match this data against its own data with the goal of identifying, on an overall basis, the cumulative demographic information of the inventors as a group. The analysis was only partially successful, however, since Census was able to match only 64% of the inventors provided by USPTO. The basic information collected by the USPTO from inventors—i.e., name, town, and state—was not a particularly strong basis for matching with Census data. For example, usually it was not possible to match common names (such as ‘‘John Smith’’ or ‘‘Mary Johnson’’) in large cities (such as ‘‘New York, NY’’ or ‘‘Chicago, IL’’). In sum, the poor quality of data-matching, as well as some statistical bias, suggest that the limited E:\FR\FM\02DEN1.SGM 02DEN1

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[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 231 (Monday, December 2, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 72063-72064]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-28789]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institute of Standards and Technology


Open Meeting of the Information Security and Privacy Advisory 
Board

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Commerce.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB) 
will meet Thursday, December 19, 2013, from 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. 
Eastern Time, and Friday, December 20, 2013, from 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 
p.m. Eastern Time. All sessions will be open to the public.

DATES: The meeting will be held on Thursday, December 19, 2013, from 
8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, and Friday, December 20, 2013, 
from 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at Microsoft Innovation & Policy 
Center, 901 K Street NW., Suite 1100, Washington, DC 20001 (TEL. 202-
263-5900). Please note admittance instructions under the SUPPLEMENTARY 
INFORMATION section of this notice.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Annie Sokol, Information Technology 
Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau 
Drive, Mail Stop 8930, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8930, telephone: (301) 
975-2006, or by email at: annie.sokol@nist.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee 
Act, as amended, 5 U.S.C. App., notice is hereby given that the 
Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB) will meet 
Thursday, December 19, 2013, from 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. Eastern 
Time, and Friday, December 20, 2013, from 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. 
Eastern Time. All sessions will be open to the public. The ISPAB is 
authorized by 15 U.S.C. 278g-4, as amended, and advises the Secretary 
of Commerce, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and 
the Director of NIST on information security and privacy issues 
pertaining to federal computer systems. Details regarding the ISPAB's 
activities are available at https://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SMA/ispab/.
    The agenda is expected to include the following items:

--Cybersecurity
     Executive Order 13636, Improving Critical Infrastructure 
Cybersecurity (78 FR 11737, February 19, 2013);
     Development of New Cybersecurity Framework;
     Request for Information (RFI)--Developing a Framework to 
Improve Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity (78 FR 13024, February 
26, 2013);
     Notice of Inquiry (NOI)--Incentives to Adopt Improved 
Cybersecurity Practices (78 FR 18954, March 28, 2013),
--Update on Legislative proposals relating to information security and 
privacy,
--Information Sharing Update: CNCI-5 ISA Brief--Information Security,
--National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) Updates,
--Regulatory updates of Embedded Software Security Updates,
--Discussion on cryptography,
--Update on Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), and
--Update on NIST Computer Security Division.

    Note that agenda items may change without notice because of 
possible unexpected schedule conflicts of presenters. The final agenda 
will be posted on the Web site indicated above. Seating will be 
available for the public and media.
    Public Participation: The ISPAB agenda will include a period of 
time, not to exceed thirty minutes, for oral comments from the public 
(Friday, December 20, 2013, between 9:00 a.m. and 9:30 a.m.). Speakers 
will be selected on a first-come, first-served basis. Each speaker will 
be limited to five minutes. Questions from the public will not be 
considered during this period. Members

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of the public who are interested in speaking are requested to contact 
Annie Sokol at the contact information indicated in the FOR FURTHER 
INFORMATION CONTACT section of this notice.
    Speakers who wish to expand upon their oral statements, those who 
had wished to speak but could not be accommodated on the agenda, and 
those who were unable to attend in person are invited to submit written 
statements. In addition, written statements are invited and may be 
submitted to the ISPAB at any time. All written statements should be 
directed to the ISPAB Secretariat, Information Technology Laboratory, 
100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8930, National Institute of Standards and 
Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8930.
    All visitors to this meeting are requested to pre-register to be 
admitted. Please submit your name, time of arrival, and email address 
to Annie Sokol, annie.sokol@nist.gov, by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, 
Friday, December 13, 2013.

    Dated: November 22, 2013.
Willie E. May,
Associate Director for Laboratory Programs.
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