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1The 60-day notice included the following 

estimate of the aggregate burden hours for this 

generic clearance Federal-wide: 

Average Expected Annual Number of activities: 

25,000. 

Average number of Respondents per Activity: 

200. 

Annual responses: 5,000,000. 

Frequency of Response: Once per request. 

Average minutes per response: 30. 

Burden hours: 2,500,000. 

generalized to the population of study. 

This feedback will provide insights into 

customer or stakeholder perceptions, 

experiences and expectations, provide 

an early warning of issues with service, 

or focus attention on areas where 

communication, training or changes in 

operations might improve delivery of 

products or services. These collections 

will allow for ongoing, collaborative and 

actionable communications between the 

Agency and its customers and 

stakeholders. It will also allow feedback 

to contribute directly to the 

improvement of program management. 

Feedback collected under this generic 

clearance will provide useful 

information, but it will not yield data 

that can be generalized to the overall 

population. This type of generic 

clearance for qualitative information 

will not be used for quantitative 

information collections that are 

designed to yield reliably actionable 

results, such as monitoring trends over 

time or documenting program 

performance. Such data uses require 

more rigorous designs that address: The 

target population to which 

generalizations will be made, the 

sampling frame, the sample design 

(including stratification and clustering), 

the precision requirements or power 

calculations that justify the proposed 

sample size, the expected response rate, 

methods for assessing potential nonresponse bias, the protocols for data 

collection, and any testing procedures 

that were or will be undertaken prior 

fielding the study. Depending on the 

degree of influence the results are likely 

to have, such collections may still be 

eligible for submission for other generic 

mechanisms that are designed to yield 

quantitative results. 

The Agency received no comments in 

response to the 60-day notice published 

in the Federal Register of December 22, 

2010 (75 FR 80542). 

Below we provide the National 

Science Foundation’s projected average 

estimates for the next three years:1

Current Actions: New collection of 

information. 

Type of Review: New collection. 

Affected Public: Individuals and 

households, businesses and 

organizations, State, Local or Tribal 

Government. 

Average Expected Annual Number of 

Activities: 10. 

Respondents: 500 per activity. 

Annual Responses: 5,000. 

Frequency of Response: Once per 

request. 

Average Minutes per Response: 30. 

Burden hours: 2,500. 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor, and a person is not required to 

respond to, a collection of information 

unless it displays a currently valid 

Office of Management and Budget 

control number. 

Dated: February 22, 2011. 

Suzanne H. Plimpton, 

Reports Clearance Officer, National Science 

Foundation. 

[FR Doc. 2011–4274 Filed 2–24–11; 8:45 am] 

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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

Assumption Buster Workshop: Trust 

Anchors Are Invulnerable 

AGENCY: The National Coordination 

Office (NCO) for the Networking and 

Information Technology Research and 

Development (NITRD) Program. 

ACTION: Call for participation. 

SUMMARY: The NCO, on behalf of the 

Special Cyber Operations Research and 

Engineering (SCORE) Committee, an 

interagency working group that 

coordinates cyber security research 

activities in support of national security 

systems, is seeking expert participants 

in a day-long workshop on the pros and 

cons of the use and implementation of 

trust anchors. The workshop will be 

held April 27, 2011 in the Savage, MD 

area. Applications will be accepted until 

5 p.m. EST March 18, 2011. Accepted 

participants will be notified by March 

30, 2011. 

DATES: Workshop: April 27, 2011; 

Deadline: March 18, 2011. Apply via email to assumptionbusters@nitrd.gov. 

Travel expenses will be paid for 

selected participants who live more 

than 50 miles from Washington, DC, up 

to the limits established by Federal 

Government travel regulations and 

restrictions. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

assumptionbusters@nitrd.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Overview: This notice is issued by the 

National Coordination Office for the 

Networking and Information 

Technology Research and Development 

(NITRD) Program on behalf of the 

SCORE Committee. 

Background: There is a strong and 

often repeated call for research to 

provide novel cyber security solutions. 

The rhetoric of this call is to elicit new 

solutions that are radically different 

from existing solutions. Continuing 

research that achieves only incremental 

improvements is a losing proposition. 

We are lagging behind and need 

technological leaps to get, and keep, 

ahead of adversaries who are themselves 

rapidly improving attack technology. To 

answer this call, we must examine the 

key assumptions that underlie current 

security architectures. Challenging those 

assumptions both opens up the 

possibilities for novel solutions that are 

rooted in a fundamentally different 

understanding of the problem and 

provides an even stronger basis for 

moving forward on those assumptions 

that are well-founded. The SCORE 

Committee is conducting a series of four 

workshops to begin the assumption 

buster process. The assumptions that 

underlie this series are that cyber space 

is an adversarial domain, that the 

adversary is tenacious, clever, and 

capable, and that re-examining cyber 

security solutions in the context of these 

assumptions will result in key insights 

that will lead to the novel solutions we 

desperately need. To ensure that our 

discussion has the requisite adversarial 

flavor, we are inviting researchers who 

develop solutions of the type under 

discussion, and researchers who exploit 

these solutions. The goal is to engage in 

robust debate of topics generally 

believed to be true to determine to what 

extent that claim is warranted. The 

adversarial nature of these debates is 

meant to ensure the threat environment 

is reflected in the discussion in order to 

elicit innovative research concepts that 

will have a greater chance of having a 

sustained positive impact on our cyber 

security posture. 

The second topic to be explored in 

this series is ‘‘Trust Anchors are 

Invulnerable.’’ The workshop on this 

topic will be held in the Savage, MD 

area on April 27, 2011. 

Assertion: ‘‘Trust anchors are 

invulnerable thus users who faithfully 

deploy reliable trust anchors can be 

confident that they are immune from the 

attacks.’’ 

This assertion underlies significant 

cyber security research and 

development that is aimed at 

developing and implementing 

invulnerable trust anchors, security 

keystones that cannot be circumvented, 

and that assure that trust in a system is 

well grounded. Numerous trust anchors 

are proffered at different levels of 

assurance and for different aspects of 

the system. Platform trust is assured by 


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1 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(1). 

2 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(3)(A)(iii). 

3 17 CFR 240.19b–4(f)(4). 

4 In 2008, DTCC completed a multi-year initiative 

to transition all Participant Terminal System 

(‘‘PTS’’) functions to PBS. Now, rather than toggle 

between the two tools, Participants can manage all 

their needs through the web-based PBS, which is 

more flexible than PTS while offering greater 

functionality. However, Participants are still able to 

use PTS for most of their settlement activities. 

5Events, which include, for example, settlement 

extension broadcasts and the receipt of a specific 

delivery, are regularly scheduled processing 

milestones associated with a given settlement cycle. 

the Trusted Platform Module. Trusted 

authentication is provided by tokens. 

The padlock on the browser assures we 

can trust web interactions since they are 

protected by SSL. Close-held keys and 

strong key management systems assure 

cryptographic trust. 

At the workshop we will explore what 

assurances these trust anchors do and 

do not provide, what they depend upon, 

how they do or do not interact with the 

rest of the system, how they typically 

fail, and what needs to be addressed to 

enable effective use of them. 

How To Apply 

If you would like to participate in this 

workshop, please submit (1) a resume or 

curriculum vita of no more than two 

pages which highlights your expertise in 

this area and (2) a one-page paper 

stating your opinion of the assertion and 

outlining your key thoughts on the 

topic. The workshop will accommodate 

no more than 60 participants, so these 

brief documents need to make a 

compelling case for your participation. 

Applications should be submitted to 

assumptionbusters@nitrd.gov no later 

than 5 p.m. EST on March 18, 2011. 

Selection and Notification: The 

SCORE committee will select an expert 

group that reflects a broad range of 

opinions on the assertion. Accepted 

participants will be notified by e-mail 

no later than March 30, 2011. We cannot 

guarantee that we will contact 

individuals who are not selected, 

though we will attempt to do so unless 

the volume of responses is 

overwhelming. 

Submitted by the National Science 

Foundation for the National 

Coordination Office (NCO) for 

Networking and Information 

Technology Research and Development 

(NITRD) on February 22, 2011. 

Suzanne H. Plimpton, 

Reports Clearance Officer, National Science 

Foundation. 

[FR Doc. 2011–4272 Filed 2–24–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7555–01–P 

POSTAL SERVICE 

International Product Change— 

International Business Reply Service 

Contract 

AGENCY: Postal ServiceTM. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Postal Service gives notice of 

filing a request with the Postal 

Regulatory Commission to add 

International Business Reply Service 

Competitive Contract 3 to the 

Competitive Products List pursuant to 

39 U.S.C. 3642. 

DATES: February 25, 2011. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Margaret M. Falwell, 202–268–2576. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

United States Postal Service® hereby 

gives notice that it has filed with the 

Postal Regulatory Commission a Request 

of United States Postal Service To Add 

International Business Reply Service 

Competitive Contract 3 to the 

Competitive Products List, and Notice of 

Filing Contract (Under Seal). Documents 

are available at http://www.prc.gov, 

Docket Nos. MC2011–21 and CP2011– 

59. 

Neva R. Watson, 

Attorney, Legislative. 

[FR Doc. 2011–4209 Filed 2–24–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7710–12–P 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION 

[Release No. 34–63936; File No. SR–DTC– 

2011–03] 

Self-Regulatory Organizations; the 

Depository Trust Company; Notice of 

Filing and Immediate Effectiveness of 

Proposed Rule Change Regarding 

Providing Participants With a New 

Optional Settlement Web Interface 

February 22, 2011. 

Pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) of the 

Securities Exchange Act of 1934 

(‘‘Act’’),1 notice is hereby given that on 

February 7, 2011, The Depository Trust 

Company (‘‘DTC’’) filed with the 

Securities and Exchange Commission 

(‘‘Commission’’) the proposed rule 

change as described in Items I and II 

below, which Items have been prepared 

primarily by DTC. DTC filed the 

proposed rule change pursuant to 

Section 19(b)(3)(A)(iii) of the Act 2 and 

Rule 19b–4(f)(4) 3 thereunder so that the 

proposal was effective upon filing with 

the Commission. The Commission is 

publishing this notice to solicit 

comments on the proposed rule change 

from interested persons. 

I. Self-Regulatory Organization’s 

Statement of the Terms of Substance of 

the Proposed Rule Change 

The proposed rule change will 

establish a new browser-based interface, 

the ‘‘Settlement Web,’’ that allows 

Participants to view their settlementrelated activity. 

II. Self-Regulatory Organization’s 

Statement of the Purpose of, and 

Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule 

Change 

In its filing with the Commission, 

DTC included statements concerning 

the purpose of and basis for the 

proposed rule change and discussed any 

comments it received on the proposed 

rule change. The text of these statements 

may be examined at the places specified 

in Item IV below. DTC has prepared 

summaries, set forth in sections A, B, 

and C below, of the most significant 

aspects of such statements. 

A. Self-Regulatory Organization’s 

Statement of the Purpose of, and 

Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule 

Change 

DTC Participants have the ability to 

view all of their settlement related 

activity using different functions in the 

Participant Browser System (‘‘PBS’’).4

Based on request from its Participants, 

DTC has created a more user-friendly 

interface called Settlement Web that 

allows Participants to view their 

settlement related activity. The 

Settlement Web will reduce the amount 

of time that Participants spend in PBS 

by increasing the efficiency in searching 

for settlement activity. Participants that 

chose to use the Settlement Web will 

have access to a Navigation Bar that will 

provide Participants with improved 

inquiry and update capabilities for their 

settlement transactions. Participants 

will also have the ability to view 

different settlement related activities 

using the Dashboard in the Settlement 

Web homepage. Additionally, 

Participants will have the option to use 

an alert function located within the 

Settlement Web’s dashboard to provide 

them to set alerts regarding settlement 

related events.5 Participants will be able 

to customize the function to control 

which events for which they want to be 

notified. These alerts will reduce the 

amount of time spent in PBS because 

Participants will no longer have to 

manually check multiple settlement 

functions to be made aware of various 

settlement events. Notifications will be 

made available to Participants through 

the alerts window in the dashboard or 

by e-mail. The e-mail will notify the 


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