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Office of the CIO Standards Activities

Office of the CIO Standards Activities. Presentation to NASA Technical Standards Working Group October 5, 2004. R. Benedict. Topics. New version of Enterprise Architecture Updates to Desktop Standards New standards release Upcoming new approach to standards.

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Office of the CIO Standards Activities

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  1. Office of the CIO Standards Activities Presentation to NASA Technical Standards Working Group October 5, 2004 R. Benedict

  2. Topics • New version of Enterprise Architecture • Updates to Desktop Standards • New standards release • Upcoming new approach to standards

  3. New Version of Enterprise Architecture • A new version of the NASA Enterprise Architecture (EA) has been approved • Biggest changes include further development of the “To-Be” architecture contained in Volume 5 • “As-is” architecture continues to be updated as well • Subsequent versions of the EA will be released semi-annually, rather than quarterly • Intense effort for over a year has led to an EA that will both guide NASA’s IT efforts and has met OMB’s requirements for agency EAs • Initiatives driven by EA will lead to updates of NASA IT technical standards

  4. Changes to Desktop Standards • New versions of NASA desktop standards have been approved • Desktop software (NASA-STD-2804) major changes • Windows XP must be deployed by August 2005; Office 2003 by July 2005 • Mac OS X 10.3.4 or later must be deployed by end of CY 2004 • Added Mozilla (PC and Mac) and Safari (Mac) as supported browsers • Added WebEx for web conferencing • Added FIPS 140-2 compliance explicitly required for security and encryption products

  5. Changes to Desktop Standards • No substantive changes to desktop hardware standard (NASA-STD-2805) • Key required capabilities • Minimum 10GB hard drive • Minimum 256MB RAM • 31/2” floppy drive not required • Small USB device with minimum 128MB capacity required for removable storage • Performance characteristics remain pegged to benchmarks required by ODIN contracts

  6. Standards Approach Changing • Current standards often mix architectural requirements/information with true standards content • Obvious example: NASA-STD-2815 (NASA Electronic Messaging Architecture, Standards and Products) • Less obvious example: Desktop standard contains information on interoperability better held in the EA document • Future standards will move EA material to the EA and retain pure standards information in the standard

  7. Web browser W3C and industry standards, including the following: HTML 4.01 XHTML 1.0 CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) ECMAscript (JavaScript) capability to run Java 2 applets SSL version 2 and 3 using 128 bit RC4 encryption and the MD5 message digest algorithm. See NASA-STD-2820, Encryption and Digital Signature Standards. Windows: Internet Explorer 6 and Mozilla 1.7 Mac OS X: Internet Explorer 5.2.3 and Mozilla 1.7, and Safari 1.2.2 (or later) Other Unix: Mozilla 1.7 Standards Approach Changing • Approach is to move towards specification of open standards (where possible) along with a list of vendor products that comply with the standards • New browser desktop software standard:

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