JTC 1_SC 38 Cloud Computing and Distributed Platforms - September 2023 Plenary Washington DC

IISTP HOSTED SC 38 PLENARY

September 18-22, 2023
Discuss and consider cloud commuting standards
Elliott School meeting rooms

From September 18-22, 2023, IISTP hosted the ISO-IEC/JTC 1, SC 38 Cloud Computing and Distributed Platforms Plenary in meeting rooms in the Elliott School. This SC 38 Plenary included 35-40 national body delegates from around the globe. The meetings of working groups 3 and 4, 1 and 5 discussed and considered the following topics. SC 38 expressed gratitude for the warm welcome and assistance with the Elliott School facilities.

New Item Highlights:

  • Cloud and Edge Networking
  • Dataspaces, concepts and characteristics
  • Cloud service customer business continuity and resilience
  • Trustworthiness in cloud computing

Amendments and revisions of standards by SC 38:

  • Revision to 19941-1 Interoperability and portability
  • WG 3 creation of an ad-hoc group for alignment of 22123 series (Vocabulary, terminology, and reference architecture)
  • Creation of an ad-hoc to provide comments on DTS 38508 – Governance implications of shared digital service platform among ecosystem organizations

IISTP Professor Jeffrey Ding Testifies to U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

Dr. Jeffrey Ding offered testimony before the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence for their hearing “Advancing Intelligence in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: Addressing the National Security Implications of AI.

Dr. Ding’s testimony “National security and economic competitiveness implications of AI” examines the distinction between innovation and diffusion capacity, and how it can be utilized to assess China’s national scientific and technological capabilities. By focusing on diffusion capacity rather than innovation capacity, his research shows that China is far from being a science and technology superpower, and that this has implications for reassessing it’s national power, especially within the context of artificial intelligence.

Video of Dr. Ding’s testimony is available here, and the text of his testimony is available here.

Dr. Jeffrey Ding testifying before the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence