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• Certificate Manager: A certificate 

management system will be used to 

inventory and manage TLS server 

certificates deployed in the 

environment. 

• Certificate Network Scanning Tool: 

A tool, such as a vulnerability scanning 

or other tool, will be used to facilitate 

the discovery of TLS server certificates 

via network scanning. 

3. Stakeholders/Roles—Humans play 

an important part in the management of 

TLS server certificates in enterprises; 

therefore, the following roles will be 

represented: 

• Line of Business/Application 

Owner: People in leadership positions 

who are responsible for the line of 

business or application and who will 

drive the need for certificates to be 

deployed. 

• System Administrators: 

Responsible for managing TLS servers 

and ensuring that the load balancer will 

be represented. 

• DevOps Developer: Responsible for 

programming/configuring and managing 

the DevOps framework. 

• Approver: One or more 

stakeholders who will review and 

approve/reject certificate management 

operations. 

• PKI Team: One or more individuals 

who will manage the certificate 

management system and public/internal 

CAs. 

Responding organizations need to 

understand and, in their letters of 

interest, commit to provide: 

1. Access for all participants’ project 

teams to component interfaces and the 

organization’s experts necessary to make 

functional connections among security 

platform components. 

2. Support for development and 

demonstration of the TLS Server 

Certificate Management Building Block 

in NCCoE facilities which will be 

conducted in a manner consistent with 

the following standards and guidance: 

OMB Circular A–130; FIPS 200; FIPS 

140–2; NIST Special Publications 800– 

52, 800–57, 800–63–3, 800–77, 800–177; 

NIST Framework for Improving Critical 

Infrastructure Cybersecurity; and 

internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) 

Requests for Comments (RFCs) 2246, 

4346, 5280 and 5246. The project will 

also be informed by two in-progress 

IETF standards draft-ietf-tls-tls13–21 

The Transport Layer Security (TLS) 

Protocol Version 1.3 and draft-ietf-acmeacme-07 Automatic Certificate 

Management Environment (ACME). 

Additional details about the TLS 

Server Certificate Management Building 

Block are available at: https://

nccoe.nist.gov/projects/building-blocks/ 

tls-server-certificate-management. 

NIST cannot guarantee that all the 

products proposed by respondents will 

be used in the demonstration. Each 

prospective participant will be expected 

to work collaboratively with NIST staff 

and other project participants under the 

terms of the consortium CRADA in the 

development of the TLS Server 

Certificate Management Building Block. 

Prospective participants’ contribution to 

the collaborative effort will include 

assistance in establishing the necessary 

interface functionality, connection and 

set-up capabilities and procedures, 

demonstration harnesses, environmental 

and safety conditions for use, integrated 

platform user instructions, and 

demonstration plans and scripts 

necessary to demonstrate the desired 

capabilities. Each participant will train 

NIST personnel, as necessary, to operate 

its product in capability 

demonstrations. Following successful 

demonstrations, NIST will publish a 

description of the security platform and 

its performance characteristics sufficient 

to permit other organizations to develop 

and deploy security platforms that meet 

the security objectives of the TLS Server 

Certificate Management Building Block. 

These descriptions will be public 

information. Under the terms of the 

consortium CRADA, NIST will support 

development of interfaces among 

participants’ products by providing IT 

infrastructure, laboratory facilities, 

office facilities, collaboration facilities, 

and staff support to component 

composition, security platform 

documentation, and demonstration 

activities. 

The dates of the demonstration of the 

TLS Server Certificate Management 

Building Block capability will be 

announced on the NCCoE website at 

least two weeks in advance at http://

nccoe.nist.gov/. The expected outcome 

of the demonstration is to improve 

security of TLS certificates and private 

keys within the enterprise. Participating 

organizations will gain from the 

knowledge that their products are 

interoperable with other participants’ 

offerings. 

For additional information on the 

NCCoE governance, business processes, 

and NCCoE operational structure, visit 

the NCCoE website http://

nccoe.nist.gov/. 

Kevin Kimball, 

NIST Chief of Staff. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology 

Notice of Localization and Tracking 

System Testing Consortium 

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards 

and Technology 

ACTION: Notice of Research Consortium 

Deadline Extension. 

SUMMARY: On November 1, 2017, the 

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology (NIST) published a Federal 

Register notice regarding the 

establishment of the Localization and 

Tracking System (LTS) Testing 

Consortium, inviting organizations to 

participate in this Consortium. The 

purpose of this Federal Register notice 

is to extend the deadline for acceptance 

of letters of interest for participation in 

the LTS Testing Consortium, as 

indicated in the DATES section below, 

from December 15, 2017, to January 31, 

2018. 

DATES: Letters of interest for 

participation in this LTS Testing 

Consortium will be accepted until 

January 31, 2018. LTS testing is 

expected to occur in May or June 2018, 

with a pre-event workshop in March. 

Dates are subject to change, however. 

ADDRESSES: Letters of interest and 

requests for additional information can 

be directed to the NIST LTS Testing 

Consortium Manager, Nader Moayeri, of 

the Advanced Network Technologies 

Division of NIST’s Information 

Technology Laboratory. Nader 

Moayeri’s contact information is NIST, 

100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8920, 

Gaithersburg, MD 20899–8920, USA, 

email: nader.moayeri@nist.gov, and 

telephone: +1 301–975–3767. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information regarding the terms 

and conditions of NIST’s CRADA, 

please contact Jeffrey DiVietro, CRADA 

and License Officer, NIST’s Technology 

Partnerships Office, by mail to 100 

Bureau Drive, Mail Stop 2200, 

Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899–2200, by 

email to jeffrey.divietro@nist.gov, or by 

telephone at +1 301–975–8779. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

On November 1, 2017, NIST 

published a Federal Register notice, 82 

FR 50626, regarding the establishment 

of the LTS Testing Consortium and 

inviting organizations to participate in 

this Consortium. The purpose of this 

new Federal Register notice is to extend 

the deadline for acceptance of letters of 

interest for participation in the LTS 

Testing Consortium from December 15, 

2017 to January 31, 2018. Participants in 


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the Consortium will be required to sign 

a Cooperative Research and 

Development Agreement (CRADA). 

Authority: 15 U.S.C. 3710a. 

Kevin Kimball, 

NIST Chief of Staff. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology 

National Conference on Weights and 

Measures Interim Meeting 

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards 

and Technology, Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Interim Meeting of the 

National Conference on Weights and 

Measures (NCWM) will be held in St. 

Pete Beach, Florida, from Sunday, 

January 21, 2018, through Wednesday, 

January 24, 2018. This notice contains 

information about significant items on 

the NCWM Committee agendas but does 

not include all agenda items. As a 

result, the items are not consecutively 

numbered. 

DATES: The meeting will be held from 

Sunday, January 21, 2018, through 

Wednesday, January 24, 2018, on 

Sunday through Tuesday, from 8:00 

a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, and on 

Wednesday, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 

p.m. Eastern Time. The meeting 

schedule is available at www.ncwm.net. 

ADDRESSES: This meeting will be held at 

the Sirata Beach Resort and Conference 

Center, 5300 Gulf Boulevard, St. Pete 

Beach, Florida 33706. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Douglas Olson, NIST, Office of Weights 

and Measures, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 

2600, Gaithersburg, MD 20899–2600. 

You may also contact Dr. Olson at (301) 

975–2956 or by email at douglas.olson@

nist.gov. The meeting is open to the 

public, but a paid registration is 

required. Please see the NCWM website 

(www.ncwm.net) to view the meeting 

agendas, registration forms, and hotel 

reservation information. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Publication of this notice on the 

NCWM’s behalf is undertaken as a 

public service; NIST does not endorse, 

approve, or recommend any of the 

proposals or other information 

contained in this notice or in the 

publications produced by the NCWM. 

The NCWM is an organization of 

weights and measures officials of the 

states, counties, and cities of the United 

States, and representatives from the 

private sector and federal agencies. 

These meetings bring together 

government officials and representatives 

of business, industry, trade associations, 

and consumer organizations on subjects 

related to the field of weights and 

measures technology, administration, 

and enforcement. NIST participates to 

encourage cooperation between federal 

agencies and the states in the 

development of legal metrology 

requirements. NIST also promotes 

uniformity in state laws, regulations, 

and testing procedures used in the 

regulatory control of commercial 

weighing and measuring devices, 

packaged goods, and for other trade and 

commerce issues. 

The NCWM has established multiple 

committees, task groups, and other 

working bodies to address legal 

metrology issues of interest to regulatory 

officials, industry, consumers, and 

others. The following are brief 

descriptions of some of the significant 

agenda items that will be considered by 

some of the NCWM Committees at the 

NCWM Interim Meeting. Comments will 

be taken on these and other issues 

during several public comment sessions. 

At this stage, the items are proposals. 

This meeting also includes work 

sessions in which the Committees may 

also accept comments, and where 

recommendations will be developed for 

consideration and possible adoption at 

the NCWM 2018 Annual Meeting. The 

Committees may withdraw or carryover 

items that need additional development. 

These notices are intended to make 

interested parties aware of these 

development projects and to make them 

aware that reports on the status of the 

project will be given at the Interim 

Meeting. The notices are also presented 

to invite the participation of 

manufacturers, experts, consumers, 

users, and others who may be interested 

in these efforts. 

The Specifications and Tolerances 

Committee (S&T Committee) will 

consider proposed amendments to NIST 

Handbook 44, ‘‘Specifications, 

Tolerances, and other Technical 

Requirements for Weighing and 

Measuring Devices.’’ Those items 

address weighing and measuring 

devices used in commercial 

applications, that is, devices that are 

used to buy from or sell to the public 

or used for determining the quantity of 

products or services sold among 

businesses. Issues on the agenda of the 

NCWM Laws and Regulations 

Committee (L&R Committee) relate to 

proposals to amend NIST Handbook 

130, ‘‘Uniform Laws and Regulations in 

the area of Legal Metrology and Engine 

Fuel Quality’’ and NIST Handbook 133, 

‘‘Checking the Net Contents of Packaged 

Goods.’’ 

NCWM S&T Committee 

The following items are proposals to 

amend NIST Handbook 44: 

GEN—General Code 

Item GEN–3 G–A.1. Commercial and 

Law-Enforcement Equipment and G– 

S.2. Facilitation of Fraud 

These paragraphs currently specify 

that all weighing and measuring 

equipment and all mechanisms, 

software, and devices that are attached 

or used in conjunction therewith must 

be designed, constructed, assembled, 

and installed for use so that they do not 

facilitate the perpetration of fraud. 

The S&T Committee will consider a 

proposal that would expand the 

application of paragraph G–A.1. 

Commercial and Law-Enforcement 

Equipment to include accessory 

equipment that can be used to defraud 

or collect unauthorized personal or 

financial information from a user (e.g., 

credit/debit card ‘‘skimmers). The 

proposal would also expand paragraph 

G–S.2. Facilitation of Fraud by requiring 

credit/debit card readers and other 

devices capable of customer initiated 

electronic financial transactions that are 

used in conjunction with weighing and 

measuring equipment to: (1) Be 

designed and constructed to restrict 

access and tampering by unauthorized 

persons; and (2) include an event 

counter that records the date and time 

of access. 

SCL—Scales 

Item SCL–6 S.1.2.2.3. Deactivation of a 

‘‘d’’ Resolution 

In 2017, the NCWM adopted a 

proposal requiring the value of the scale 

division (d) and verification scale 

interval (e) to be equal on Class I and 

Class II scales installed into commercial 

service as of January 1, 2020, when used 

in a direct sale application (i.e., both 

parties of a weighing transaction are 

present when the quantity is 

determined). The S&T Committee will 

now consider a new proposal that, if 

adopted, would prohibit the 

deactivation of a ‘‘d’’ resolution on a 

Class I or II scale equipped with a value 

of ‘‘d’’ that differs from ‘‘e’’ if by such 

action it causes the scale to round 

improperly. 

Item SCL–7 S.1.8.5. Recorded 

Representations, Point of Sale Systems 

The S&T Committee will consider a 

proposal requiring additional sales 

information to be recorded by cash 


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