Working Groups

OSTERA's technical work is carried out by member-driven working groups. Each group develops and maintains standards in its domain, with finished work items submitted for broader international adoption. Our major working groups are described below.

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JSON Signature Scheme

Purpose and Scope

The purpose of this working group is to work on solutions that enable JSON data, and JSON like data structures, to be digitally signed and encrypted.

Goals and Outcomes

This working group will primarily focus on maintaining two existing work items to ensure they meet the needs of the market and support modern cryptographic algorithms as they become available:

  • The JSON digital signature scheme (JSS)
  • The JSON canonicalization scheme (JCS)

Other deliverables for JSON like solutions may also be worked on. The plan is to submit all finished work items to ITU-T Study Group 17.

Working Group Chair

Bret Jordan

Cyber Risk Governance Metrics

Purpose and Scope

The purpose of this working group is to create a standard framework that can enable the C-suite and their board to be more effective and efficient in understanding the actual state of cybersecurity within their organization through appropriate metrics and the business implications thereof.

Goals and Outcomes

This working group will focus on documenting the definitions for various classes of metrics as well as a base level inventory of enterprise Cyber Risk metrics, their corresponding implementation plans, and the levels of deployment that can be used to benchmark an organization and help an organization better understand and track the state of cybersecurity in their environment.

Working Group Chair

Charles Blauner

Connectivity Naming System using Connection Profiles

Purpose and Scope

CNS/CP is a governance substrate sitting above identity infrastructure and beneath application-layer interaction protocols. It provides governed discovery, negotiation, and binding. This Working Group will ratify the existing CNS/CP specification as an OSTERA-published standard.

In scope: the core specification; canonical vocabulary (realm, governor, policy, capabilities, roles, context); operational pattern (declare, reconcile, match, bind); conformance criteria.

Out of scope: vertical Connection Profile families (cp:tool.*, cp:bms.*, cp:ledger.*, and others), to be addressed in follow-on Working Groups.

Goals and Outcomes

  • Ratify CNS/CP as an OSTERA standard
  • Establish the canonical vocabulary and operational pattern as normative
  • Define minimum conformance criteria for orchestrators and SDKs
  • Submit a formal liaison to ITU-T SG17 for adoption as a Recommendation