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- Complying with OMB's guidance for e-authentication, as required by NMFS e-signature policy and procedural directive, requires agencies to work through an analytical process to evaluate e-signature alternatives to match e-signature tools to the e-government application being enabled.
- Neither the OMB policy nor NIST e-authentication technical guidance specifies solutions that agencies must use.
- The first step in the analytical process is to understand the range of e-signature alternatives available to agencies and agree upon criteria for evaluating the e-signature alternatives. (This is the subject of the August 20th meeting)
- The second step is to evaluate a selected set of e-signature alternatives against some agreed-upon alternatives. (This is the subject of the August 27th September 3rd meeting)
- Subsequent meetings will help complete the analytical steps called for in the NMFS e-signature policy and procedural directive.
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