Problem:
State and local justice information sharing is historically a costly and difficult endeavor. It is hard enough to harmonize technical strategies and supporting policies within local trusted networks. When information needs to be shared outside local jurisdictions or across state lines, currently successful strategies such as interstate compacts take a long time and great expense to put in place. More broadly, the many justice jurisdictions and organizations have formulated a very large number of specific security, access, and privacy policies for their data. Typically, no two policies are exactly alike, making harmonization via legal negotiation a slow and expensive process. Many current policies overlap for specific types of data sharing, exhibiting a mix of commonalities and differences.
These legacy frameworks for sharing data can be characterized mostly as monolithic and opaque. Although Global has done a good job of creating national technical standards and guidelines for privacy policies, there has been little progress toward the simplification and harmonization of actual security, access, and privacy policies.
Solution:
The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) and Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) are now developing a trustmark strategy to mitigate these classic barriers. A trustmark is a reusable trust component, either a technical standard or a policy. Thus, it is transparent, modular, and reusable. When a trustmark is properly designed, organizations and jurisdictions can compose information sharing requirements using an array of trustmark components. Requirements for verifying compliance with trustmarks are clearly specified and enforced. In a real sense, these trustmarks are market-based. Successful ones will be widely adopted and implemented, and others will be ignored. As organizations gravitate toward the more successful trustmarks, it will become easier and easier to share information.
Scope:
This task team will identify and prioritize candidates for Global trustmarks. At a minimum, Global will probably want to create trustmarks for its key existing technical standards, since that will ensure adequate conformance to those standards by practitioners and industry providers. More important, the task team will identify key information sharing policies that are good candidates for trustmarks. In both areas, the task team will identify trustmarks that have already been developed by other organizations so that work is not duplicated. When the list of desired trustmarks has been identified and prioritized, this task team will disbar. Global may then create specific task teams to develop the prioritized trustmarks.
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