UTFS Financial Management Committee Meeting Minutes

Chung-Chung Tam, Chicago Transit Authority (Chair)

Leisa Moniz, USDOT/Volpe Center

Rick Barrett, Quattran Associates (Vice Chair)

Jennifer Cheng, Metro. Transportation Com.

David deKozan, Cubic Transportation Systems

David Faust, Chicago Transit Authority

Barnie Louie, BART

Greg Garback, WMATA

Bob Murray, BART

Olatunji Nowlin, Chicago Transit Authority

Darshana Patel, Chicago Transit Authority

Alexander Pi, Scheidt & Bachmann USA

Meeting Goals & Objectives:

• Work group leaders report-out

Systems Work Group Report-out, David deKozan:

Work Package #1:

Work Package #3:

Work Package #4:

Overall the Committee will produce three deliverables:

WP#2 activities:

Overall the face-to-face meetings of Work Package #1 and #4 held last week in Washington, D.C. were productive. David provided the report-out in the absence of the Work Package leaders.

David indicated that work on their current document should be completed in the September timeframe and will go through the necessary balloting processes for final approval.

Gary Yamamura sent Tam a status report on the activities and progress of WP#3 via email and is provided below:

1. A first draft of Sections 1 through 7 of the document should be complete by mid-month and will be circulated among the WP3 team for review and comment.  Sections 1 through 5 are introductory.  Section 6 is an overview of the remaining sections and it introduces the basic concepts associated with security planning.  Section 7 focuses on key generation and management and establishes guidelines for key management for all components of a regional system.
2. A rough draft of Section 8 (which focuses on security for the smart card) is under development and is expected to be released to the Section 8 development team for review and updating this month.
3. Progress on the remaining two sections (9 - which focuses on reader security and 10 - which focuses on security for central computers, regional systems and external systems) of the document has been slow due to unavailability of the two section development team leaders.  In order to expedite the development of those sections, I will make a last attempt to contact those team leaders and, failing to do so, will reassign the responsibilities to alternate team members at our next team meeting scheduled for July 20. 
4. The WP3 team has established a stretch goal of completing at least a first draft of the full work package by the end of July.  That goal will be difficult to achieve given the slow progress on Section 9 and 10 but we will retain this date as our stretch goal for now.

The focus of the group will begin to transition from the Functional Description document to the drafting of the intersystems messaging document. A sub-group will convene this week, via conference call to begin the process of putting together a document for review in six weeks. Volunteers from Three Point Consulting, Cubic, Thales, S&B will participate. David indicated that outputs from the recent developments in the PANYNJ’s RIS document as well as a Cubic document can also be used as resources.

Card Format Specification – WP#1
Security Guidelines – WP#3
Intersystems Messaging Document – WP#4

David deKozan will draft a memo for Work Package team leaders and Committee leadership that outlines a recommendation to defer initiating WP#2 activities as it was defined at the UTFS Meetings in San Jose, June, 2003.

The draft will be circulated for comments by David by COB July 16^th.

Once the review is completed, further discussion on this recommendation will need to occur among the Committee leadership and the Program leadership.