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  Good afternoon,

  I agree fully with Robert Smiths comments to this standards.

  I would add, as an active participant with NIST in several aspects of the development of these proposed standards, they are based on current knowledge or older technology, and as such are limited to a snap shot in time in regards to IT security. So I would recomend that these standards be reviewed, modified as new or newer technology comes online. I would suggest that an anual review for addressing including new or more advanced IT security technology and that such technology can be included as an amendment to this draft standards document and that this document reflect this being done.

  Regards, Jeffrey A. Williams Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 134k members/stakeholders strong!)

  Jeffrey A. Williams Posted June 14, 2007 5:12 PM
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  All of the agencies already know this and have been audited by the GAO. NIST is several years behind the curve and their standards actually inhibit new game-changing technology from being used. NIST standards force path dependance. "Path-dependence is a system or network that depends on past decisions of producers and consumer," - Nicholas Economides, Stern School of Business, New York University. NIST is setting a standard for standards already in place. More change is needed here.

  Robert Smith Posted June 13, 2007 8:09 PM
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  A 367 page document are you kidding, another example of our useless bureaucrats, I imagine that they will ask now for more money or a promotion

  dan ketter Posted June 12, 2007 12:47 PM