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BSD Certification Group Newsletter
January 2007


Contents

1 BSDA Testing Engine

After considering the costs of using existing testing engines and using input from the community gathered in the Test Delivery Survey Report, it has been decided that a custom test delivery engine best fits the needs of the BSD community. The testing engine will use Open Source applications and will be made available to other interested organizations under a BSD license.

The software requirements specification is currently being written and is expected to be published around January 31st. Shortly thereafter, an announcement will be made regarding the location of the code and documentation repository and detailing the development process for those who wish to contribute.

2 2007 Target Dates for BSDA

The BSDCG has set the following target dates for the upcoming BSDA:

March 31
initial prototype of testing engine available for testing and security auditing
May 18-19
BSDA (or its beta) made available during BSDCan
If all goes well, the BSDA should also be available at NYCBSDCon in the fall and EuroBSDCon in November.

For those of you waiting patiently for the BSDA to be made available in your city, that is the goal we are working towards. Once the testing engine has proven itself to be secure and stable, the requirements and agreements for secure, proctored environments will be made available.

3 Website Statistics

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4 Mailing Lists

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The general discussion list is at http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/bsdcert/.

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5 About this Newsletter

The BSD Certification Group newsletter is published every month, near the middle of the month.

Thank you to Dru Lavigne for contributing to this newsletter. The editor is Jeremy C. Reed.

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