Draft FIPS 201-2 Workshop

1) Purpose:

NIST is hosting a public workshop to exchange information on the Draft Federal Information 

Processing Standards (FIPS) 201-2. The workshop is designed to exchange information on Draft 

FIPS 201-2, and to answer questions and provide clarifications regarding the Draft. Federal 

Agencies and industry representatives are invited to discuss the Draft FIPS 201-2 and share their 

observations on the proposed FIPS 201-2. 

2) Workshop Program: 

Time Topic/Event Speaker/Comments

Day 1: Monday, April 18, 2011 

8:00 – 9:00 am Arrival Check-in and Security NIST Security

9:00 – 9:10 am Host Introduction Hildegard Ferraiolo, 

NIST

9:10 – 9:30 am NIST Welcome James Dray, NIST

9:30 – 10:15 am Overview (Goals of the workshop, purpose of the 

revision, overall revision process, summary of proposed 

changes)

Hildegard Ferraiolo, 

NIST

10:15 – 10:30 am Break

10:30 – 11:30 am Identity Proofing and Registration (OPM Springer 

memo, source documents, chain-of-trust, Central 

Verification System)

William MacGregor, 

NIST

11:30 – 12:30 pm Issuance and Maintenance (Special rule for 

pseudonyms, grace period, name change by card-holder, 

re-key, post-issuance updates, verification data reset)

Ketan Mehta, Booz 

Allen Hamilton

12:30 – 1:30 pm Lunch

1:30 – 3:00 pm PIV Biometric Specifications Patrick Grother, NIST

3:00 – 3:15 pm Break

3:15 – 3:45 pm Reader Resilience and Flexibility William MacGregor, 

NIST

3:45 – 4:45 pm Visual Card Topography Annie Sokol, NIST

Day 2: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 

9:00 – 9:30 am Change Management Salvatore 

Francomacaro, NIST

9:30 – 9:40 am Federal ICAM Sub-Committee Plan for FIPS 201-2 

Revision Recommendations

Tim Baldridge, NASA

9:40 – 9:50 am OMB Policy Salvatore 

Francomacaro, NIST

9:50 – 10:15 am PIV Validation, Certification, and Accreditation Ramaswamy 

Chandramouli, NIST

10:15 – 10:30 am Break

10:30 – 11:30 am PIV Card Application Hildegard Ferraiolo, 

NIST
11:30 – 12:30 pm PIV Cardholder Authentication Ketan Mehta, Booz 

Allen Hamilton

12:30 – 1:30 pm Lunch

1:30 – 2:15 pm Secure Channel Protocol(s) David Cooper, NIST

2:15 – 2:45 pm FIPS 201 Evaluation Program David Temoshok, 

GSA

2:45 – 3:00 pm Break

3:00 – 5:00 pm Vendor / Agency Observations

3:00 - 3:10 Documents & Standards Gap, Lars

 Suneborn, SCA

3:15 - 3:25 Usage-Authentication and PKI, LaChelle 

 LeVan, SCA 

3:30 - 3:40 Change Managment, Gilles Lisimaque,

 SCA

3:45 - 3:55 Usage - Card Data, Gilles Lisimaque,

 SCA

4:00 - 4:10 Achieving FIPS 201 compliance, Auston

 Holt, atsec information security

4:15 - 4:25 FIPS 201-2 Review, Rob Zivney, SIA

4:30 - 4:40 Standards and Testing, Salvatore 

 D'Agostino, SIA

4:45 - 4:55 PIV Card Topology, Ron Martin, HHS

Industry / Government

5:00 – 5:20 pm Wrap-up William MacGregor, 

NIST

3) Registration:

Registration prior to 5:00 P.M. April 11, 2011, is REQUIRED to attend the workshop in person. 

Registration for the Draft Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 201-2 Workshop is 

available online at http://www.nist.gov/itl/csd/set/fips201_2_workshop.cfm. Please go to the

Conference Registration link and complete the registration form for the Public Workshop. 

Contact Angela Ellis (angela.ellis@nist.gov), if you have questions regarding registration. 

4) Details:

Start date: Monday, April 18, 2011 at 8:30am

End date: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 at 5:00pm

Location: Red Auditorium, NIST – Gaithersburg, MD

Audience: Industry and Government

Format: Workshop
Sponsor(s): National Institute of Standards and Technology

5) Vendor / Agency Observations

NIST will facilitate 10 minute individual presentations through which interested individuals may 

present their observations on Draft FIPS 201-2 revision to the group. All material presented will 

be made public. Individuals desiring to present their observations must contact the PIV Team 

(piv_comments@nist.gov) via email and provide an abstract and presentation slides by Tuesday, 

April 5, 2011. Please use “Draft FIPS 201-2 Workshop” in Subject line of the email. Workshop

registration is required to gain entry to the NIST facilities.

6) Presentations and Documentation (available after the workshop)
7) Webcast 

Participants that wish to attend "remotely" may participate using their web browser to view the 

webcast. Questions from remote viewers should be sent to piv_comments@nist.gov.

Instructions for the webcast will be provided at

http://www.nist.gov/itl/csd/set/fips201_2_workshop.cfm.