I am part of a group at NIST that will be part of a newly formed
consortium of US Gov agencies and NCSA, in cooperation with NSF.
I understand that at least one of the purposes of the consortium
is to promote use of NCSA Mosaic within the gov, and possibly
ensure the long-term viability of NCSA Mosaic. There is a meeting
with NCSA and the US Gov agencies participating in this in mid-May.
We just had a meeting to discuss what we want to get out of this
mid-May meeting. We are looking at it as an opportunity for access
to the people developing the software and as an opportunity to
influence the direction of the products - their server and the client.
We're sending a group to the mid-May meeting to discuss security issues
as well as other issues, such as possibly standardizing html.
I'd like to ask some help of the list: could people familiar with
the security issues of Mosaic and WWW servers summarize their concerns
so that we could take them with us? I follow this list fairly well;
I have saved some postings about Mosaic but would appreciate it if
people could summarize all the issues once more. We plan to ask NCSA
to respond to a summary of the concerns, which I anticipate being able
to forward/summarize to this list. If Brent agrees, I will collect the
responses and forward them to him for use as a mosaic/www topic file.
Sincerely,
John Wack
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John P. Wack
Computer Scientist
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Technology A-216
Gaithersburg, Md. 20899
301-975-3411
301-948-0279 (Fax)
JWack @
nist .
gov
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"Wack of all trades, master of none"
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