The IEEE P1363 Working Group will hold a working group meeting in 
Miami, Florida, all day on Thursday January 9th and on the morning
of Friday January 10th. The venue will be the Hyatt Regency Miami,
which is also the venue for the PKC 2003 conference on January 6-8.
The meeting is open to the public. There will be a meeting fee of 
$10 per half day to cover IEEE expenses, charged to members and
non-members. It will be possible to teleconference in for the
meeting. Attendance by teleconference will count as attendance for
voting purposes, and people who attend by teleconference will be
asked to pay the same meeting fee as physical attendees.

We're currently trying to negotiate a special rate in the hotel
for attendees at the meeting. It may be possible for attendees
at PKC to stay the extra night at the PKC rate, but this has
yet to be confirmed.

The agenda will be announced closer to the meeting, but will certainly
cover the following:

* P1363a ballot status
* P1363.1: revisions and recent results
* P1363.2: revised version, discussion, selection criteria for
  techniques to be included
* Group plans: P1363b, registry
* Additional presentations on matters of current interest in 
  public-key cryptography.

If anyone would like to add any items to the agenda, please mail 
myself (wwhyte@ntru.com) and the Secretary, Ari Singer (asinger@ntru.com)
with details (title and length of time required -- typically 25 or 45
minutes). P1363 has traditionally welcomed new research contributions 
of any type related to the study of public-key cryptography, and 
most meetings have one or more presentations on subjects of interest 
to the working group. I've already received notification of some 
presentations that some people would like to give, but more are always 
welcome.

If you are likely to attend, please let me know by email for planning
purposes.

Some useful links:

PKC 2003 home page:
  http://www.sait.fsu.edu/pkc2003/.

Hotel:
  http://miamiregency.hyatt.com/property/index.jhtml

This meeting announcement:
 http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/1363/WorkingGroup/announcements/Jan03.txt.

Cheers,

William


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William Whyte
Chair, IEEE P1363 Working Group
NTRU Cryptosystems
5 Burlington Woods
Burlington, MA 01803
tel:  +1.781.418.2500
fax:  +1.781.418.2532