[cap-talk] Scholarship of P-1935 (was: Re: P-1935 - on old truth and loss of control)

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 15:56 -0800, Jed Donnelley wrote:
> Regarding P-1935 and more generally the TCSEC, I wonder
> why that process wasn't more 'scholarly' and include
> wider review.  I wasn't involved, but seeing so many
> names on it I expect the authors believed those people
> constituted a sort of "review".

They were not scholarly because neither was produced by a scholarly
process or a scholarly institution. IDA is a think tank whose job is to
produce position papers. TCSEC (and CC) resulted from a process of
political and technical compromise, and both were explicitly framed as
attempting to consolidate the existing, well-established state of the
art.


shap