The Trusted Computing and Digital Rights Management Standards and Guidelines were developed by a cross-agency working group under the aegis of the e-GIF Management Committee, with the State Services Commission as the lead agency. The Standards and Guidelines were developed in order to implement the TC/DRM Principles and Policies also developed by the Working Group.
Archives New Zealand is the custodian of the TC/DRM Standards and Guidelines. This reflects the fact that Archives NZ deals with all government-held information across the public sector, rather than specific information, whether across New Zealand or specific sectors or types of information.
The SSC holds the stewardship role for the TC/DRM principles, policies and standards.
Trusted Computing and Digital Rights Management promise some advancement for the security and management of information and present challenges and risks to government in the protection of the integrity of government-held information. Trusted computing technology (TC) can be embedded in computer hardware to protect information from unauthorised use. Digital rights management (DRM) can regulate whether digital information can be viewed, printed, copied or modified, who can take these actions, and for how long.
The E-Government web site is home to the Trusted Computing and Digital Rights Management Policies and Principles. http://www.e.govt.nz/policy/tc-and-drm
The Standards and Guidelines. http://www.e.govt.nz/policy/tc-and-drm/standards-guidelines-07
An announcement that Archives New Zealand will be the new custodian of the Standards and Guidelines (March 2008) can be read here.
Send comments and feedback on the TC/DRM Standards and Guidelines as well as questions about how the standard works and news tips to tcdrm@archives.govt.nz