Internet Security Policy (spwg)




Charter



Status: Concluded August, 1991 











Chair(s):







 Richard Pethia 







Description of Working Group:



The Security Policy Working Group (SPWG) is chartered to create a proposed



Internet Security Policy for review, possible modification, and



possible adoption by the Internet Activities Board.  The SPWG will



focus on both technical and administrative issues related to security,



including integrity, authentication and confidentiality controls, and



the administration of hosts and networks.







Among the issues to be considered in this Working Group are:







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   Responsibilities and obligations of users, database



     administrators, host operators, and network managers.







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   Technical controls which provide protection from disruption of



     service, unauthorized modification of data, unauthorized disclosure



     of information and unauthorized use of facilities.







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   Organizational requirements for host, local network, regional



     network and backbone network operators.







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   Incident handling procedures for various Internet components.







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Request for Comments:

  • RFC1281 Guidelines for the Secure Operation of the Internet (Informational)