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IPv6 Test Methods: General Description and Validation

November 30, 2009
Author(s)
J. S. Nightingale
The USG profile for IPv6 specifies requirements for host, router and network protection devices (NPD) and this document specifies the validation requirements for test methods and test specifications used to test these devices. It has become the practice

USGv6 Testing Program User's Guide

November 30, 2009
Author(s)
J. S. Nightingale
OMB Memorandum M-05-22 directed the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop the technical infrastructure (standards and testing) necessary to support wide scale adoption of IPv6 in the US Government (USG). Upon detailed inspection

Gas Flowmeter Calibrations With the 26 m 3 PVTt Standard

November 25, 2009
Author(s)
Aaron N. Johnson, John D. Wright
This document describes NIST s 26 m3 pressure, volume, temperature, and time (PVTt) primary flow standard. This standard is used to calibrate gas flow meters over a range extending from 200 standard L/min to 77,000 standard L/min where the reference

Hydrocarbon Liquid Flow Calibration Service

November 25, 2009
Author(s)
Tsyh Tyan Yeh, Jesus J. Aguilera, John D. Wright
This document provides a description of the NIST s new hydrocarbon liquid flow calibration system (HLFS) operated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Fluid Flow Group. The calibrator is used to provide hydrocarbon liquid flowmeter

NIST Calibration Services for Liquid Volume

November 24, 2009
Author(s)
Vern E. Bean, Pedro I. Espina, John D. Wright, J F. Houser, Sherry D. Sheckels, Aaron N. Johnson
NIST provides calibration services for metal volume provers for liquid volumes from 4 L to 7600 L using gravimetric and volumetric methods. This document describes the procedures and methods of calculation used in the calibration service. The covered

Gas Flowmeter Calibrations With the Working Gas Flow Standard

November 23, 2009
Author(s)
John D. Wright, Jean-Phillipe Kayl, Aaron N. Johnson, Gina M. Kline
The Working Gas Flow Standard (WGFS) uses critical venturis, critical nozzles, or laminar flowmeters as working standards to calibrate customer flowmeters. The working standards are periodically calibrated with primary standards: the 34 L, 677 L, or 26 m3

Certification Report for SRM 2112 and 2113

July 1, 2009
Author(s)
Christopher N. McCowan
This report documents the procedures used to develop certified maximum force and absorbed energy values for SRM 2112 and SRM 2113. The report serves to provide outside observers with accurate and detailed information on how the materials were certified and

Randomized Hashing for Digital Signatures

February 25, 2009
Author(s)
Quynh H. Dang
NIST-approved digital signature algorithms require the use of an approved cryptographic hash function in the generation and verification of signatures. Approved cryptographic hash functions and digital signature algorithms can be found in FIPS 180-3

Overview of the TREC 2007 Blog Track

December 17, 2008
Author(s)
Ian Soboroff, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis
The goal of the Blog track is to explore the information seeking behaviour in the blogosphere. It aims to create the required in- frastructure to facilitate research into the blogosphere and to study retrieval from blogs and other related applied tasks

Overview of the TREC 2007 Enterprise Track

December 17, 2008
Author(s)
Ian M. Soboroff, Peter Bailey, Nick Craswell, Arjen de Vries
The goal of the enterprise track is to conduct experiments with enterprise data that reflect the experiences of users in real organizations. This year, the track has introduced a new corpus with the goal to be more representative of real-world enterprise

The Sixteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2007)

December 1, 2008
Author(s)
Ellen M. Voorhees
This report constitutes the proceedings of the 2007 Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2007, held in Gaithersburg, Maryland November 6-9, 2007. TREC 2007 is the latest in a series of workshops designed to foster research in text retrieval and related

A Recommendation for the Use of PIV Credentials in Physical Access Control Systems (PACS)

November 20, 2008
Author(s)
William I. MacGregor, Ketan L. Mehta, David A. Cooper, Karen A. Scarfone
This document provides best practice guidelines for integrating the PIV Card with the physical access control systems (PACS) that authenticate the cardholders in Federal facilities. Specifically, this document recommends a risk-based approach for selecting

Recommendation for Key Derivation Using Pseudorandom Functions

November 12, 2008
Author(s)
Lidong Chen
This Recommendation specifies techniques for the derivation of additional keying material from a secret key, either established through a key establishment scheme or shared through some other manner, using pseudorandom functions.

Calibration of Water Permeation Tubes

October 16, 2008
Author(s)
Gregory E. Scace, W. Wyatt Miller
NIST provides traceability of permeation tube humidity generators to national humidity standards by measuring the water permeation rate of permeation tubes submitted for calibration. Permeation tubes undergoing calibration are installed into a specially

Technical Guide to Information Security Testing and Assessment

September 30, 2008
Author(s)
Murugiah P. Souppaya, Karen A. Scarfone
The purpose of this document is to assist organizations in planning and conducting technical information security tests and examinations, analyzing findings, and developing mitigation strategies. The guide provides practical recommendations for designing

High power laser calibrations at NIST

September 1, 2008
Author(s)
Xiaoyu X. Li, Joshua A. Hadler, Christopher L. Cromer, John H. Lehman, Marla L. Dowell
This document describes the calibration service for the responsivity of laser power meters and detectors used with continuous wave high power lasers at laser wavelengths of 1.06 and 10.6 micrometers. An overview of the calibration procedures, measurement

Guide to General Server Security

July 25, 2008
Author(s)
Karen A. Scarfone, Wayne Jansen, Miles C. Tracy
The purpose of this document is to assist organizations in understanding the fundamental activities performed as part of securing and maintaining the security of servers that provide services over network communications as a main function. The document

Reference 0 /45 Colorimeter

May 12, 2008
Author(s)
Maria E. Nadal
The Optical Technology Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a new instrument designed to measure the surface color of reflective, non-fluorescent samples at a geometry of 0 illumination angle and 45 viewing

Measurement Issues in Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes

March 15, 2008
Author(s)
S Arepalli, Stephen W. Freiman, Stephanie A. Hooker, Kalman D. Migler
Recommended Practice Guide for Single Wall Carbon Nanotube Characterization consisting of five chapters: Introduction; Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA) ; Near-IR Spectroscopy (NIR), Raman Spectroscopy, Optical, Electron, and Scanned Probe Microscopy.
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