UTFS Financial Management Committee Meeting Minutes

Chung-Chung Tam (Chair), CTA

Leisa Moniz, USDOT/Volpe Center

Rick Barrett (Vice-Chair), Quattran Associates

Greg Garback, WMATA

Neil Huffman, Alliance Data Systems

Barney Louie, BART

Craig Maxey, WMATA

Brian Monk, Cubic

Bob Murray

Tomas Oliva, TriMet

Darshana Patel, CTA

Meeting Goals & Objectives:

• Update on UTFS By-Law Revision, IP Policy and Scope Statement

• Work Group leaders report-out
• Update on Smart Card Alliance/Transportation Council Activity

Since Martin Schroeder was not present on the call, Tam proceeded to the Work Group leader report-outs:

Work Group Leader Report-outs:

• Work Package #1, Bob Murray

Work Group Leader Report-outs:

• Work Package #1:Bob Murray (continued from Page 1)

• Work Package #3: Gary Yamamura was not present on the call.

Alex’s email summary dated June 9, 2005 is as follows:

i) Limited Use and Security Update subgroup has made a recommendation that a note will be added to Section 1.4 of the Standard to inform the reader that all references to security in the Standard are recommendations or guidelines and not requirements. The note will also refer the reader to Work Package 3 (Security Planning and Implementation Guidelines and Best Practices) where additional information regarding system security has been documented. (Note as previously recommended, another group should be looking into the overall system security issue).

"Non Full Featured" cards will not be considered in the "first release" specification either. References, and information regarding "Non Full Featured" cards are being transferred to another document.

This could be dealt with as a new work item AFTER the current specification is completed.

The edited specification implementing these recommendations will be released for WP1 review shortly.

ii) The Comment Resolution subgroup is still progressing. Although, it appears that almost all comments have been resolved, the implementation of those comments will take some time, as some comments are lengthy, and affect the entire document. Comment Resolution task appears to be on schedule.

iii) Schedule for WP1 tasks have been released previously.

Tam will contact Gary to receive the final copy of the Guidelines document, distribute to the full Committee as well as the leadership Committee.

• Work Package #4:David McIlwraith was not present on the call. Brian Monk provided a quick update.

Message structure and protocols were discussed at length in Burlington. Since that time, it has been decided that XML will be used exclusively in developing WP#4 standard.

Greg Garback

Update on UTFS By-law Revision, IP Policy and Scope Statement: Rick Barrett provided a quick update from the summary Tom Parker provided on last week’s leadership call.

Greg indicated that he provided a quick overview and status of the Smart Card Alliance, Transportation Council at the meetings in Burlington.

The consensus of the group gathered in Burlington was that perhaps the area of Security would be an opportunity where the Council could provide assistance.

Presently, the Council is working on developing their governance documents and gathering membership. It is anticipated that the formal launch of the Council will be later this month.

The June 3^rd voice vote was postponed due to a comment received on the Scope Statement document. The general nature of the comment was that, language detailing the development of the magnetic stripe standard (to be developed) needs to be incorporated into the document.

APTA will make the necessary revision, perform the necessary outreach to the vendors, distribute the revision, and then schedule another call.

Tam will contact Gary Yamamura to get final copy of the Security Guidelines document.

Schedule Martin Schroeder to participate on next call of the Financial Management Committee to provide the group an update on the Scope, By-Law, IP issues.