trusted computing SIG formation

[Jaroslav Reznik]

On Monday, February 14, 2011 05:04:25 pm David Egts wrote:
> Hi all,

Hi!

> I have some customers interest in doing trusted computing in RHEL (e.g.,
> TPM, trusted boot, etc.).  RHEL and Fedora provide basic components thanks
> to contributions from Red Hat, the community, and hw and sw partners, but
> real world customer use cases need to be fleshed out to ensure we are
> delivering the right capabilities.
> 
> The thought is to prove this out in Fedora and then move the effort into
> future versions of RHEL if found to be commercially applicable and viable.
> 
> For starters, the SIG would comprise of a mailing list and wiki.  For
> instance...
> 
>        trusted-computing at lists.fedoraproject.org
>        https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Trusted_computing
> 
> I would be happy to get this SIG off the ground with help from Eric Paris. 
> Once we get it off the ground the next step would be to announce its
> existence on select email lists and directly to interested customers and
> hw and sw partners.
> 
> Does this sound like a good plan or do you have any objections or advice?

The plan sounds reasonable, I think you can atract some community members. Other 
possibility is to join (nearly) re-established Server SIG, one of theirs goal 
(but not the only one) is to bring to Fedora new features intended for next 
RHEL. Or some kind of cooperation would be great (dmach, sharkcz - dhorak), same 
for Joerg's security lab spin.
  
> I really appreciate your guidance.  My apologies in advance for any
> ignorance.  I've had my Fedora account for all of literally 10 minutes,
> but I really look forward to working with the Fedora community!

No problem, first time I tried to start up a new SIG (do we even work anymore? 
:-) I had the same feelings and questions.

> If no one objects in the next couple of days, I'll assume I'm good and will
> proceed to request an email list on the Fedora infrastructure page.

Feel free to proceed!

> Thanks all and have a great week!

You too!

Jaroslav

> Dave

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