[C-safe-secure-studygroup] Welcome to the C Safe-Secure Study Group

Robert Seacord rcseacord at gmail.com
Wed Dec 14 20:39:34 UTC 2016


Welcome to the C Safe-Secure Study Group.

The charter of the group is:

1.  To study the problem of adding coverage for safety-critical and
safety/security-critical issues into the existing C Secure Coding Rules TS.

2.  To study the problem of addressing safety and security issues related
to parts of the C standard not currently covered by the TS, such as
concurrency.

3.  To propose updates to TS 17961 based on these studies and based on
experience gained with the TS since its publication.

4.  To recommend to WG14 a course of action for the resulting document,
such as creating a new edition of the TS, or making it into an
International Standard.

The first order of business is to announce the organizational meeting of
the Study Group on this WG14 reflector.  I would like to schedule this for
a time that can accommodate those folks who have responded positively that
they would like to participate in the study group (e.g., everyone on this
mailing list).  I think most of the current participants are in Western
Europe and the East Coast of the United States.  Consequently, I think we
should probably shoot for perhaps a 4PM GMT / 11 AM EST time.  I would like
to hold the inaugural meeting the first week of the new year (e.g., 1/3 -
1/6).  Please email Laurence Urhegyi <laurence.urhegyi at codethink.co.uk>
with your availability and preferences (and optionally cc me or the list).
Laurence has agreed to help out with some of the administrative /
management tasks for the study group.

The initial draft agenda for the inaugural meeting is:

1.  Identify officers for the study group.
2.  Decide what we want to name the study group.
3.  Decide how frequently we want to meet, and what form these meetings
should take.
4.  Discuss the scope of the study group.

Our first deadline following the inaugural meeting is to propose a schedule
for this effort at the upcoming C Standards Meeting in Markham, Ontario
2017–4–3/7 (see http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2084.htm).
To propose a schedule, we need to figure out what we hope to accomplish and
who can contribute to the effort and at what level.

Thanks,
rCs
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