She said Paul Markovitz will remain as the technical lead for Federal Commons development. The Subcommittee meets the first Thursday of each month at the White House Conference Center. Recent activities include work on the Federal Commons Project Plan and on a survey to determine the functional requirements for an agency integration kit. She said that the FY2002 budget request for the grants simplification program office contained approved funding for Federal Commons, but for FY2001, funding will come from member contributions. She said that while there are many steps that need to be accomplished in establishing an operational digital signature application, the single most important thing that must be done is to focus first on the policy issues.
Policy is all important.
She can assist agencies that want to know the issues and steps in beginning to work with digital signatures. Constituencies Resources, etc.