Key questions still surround new national cyber commission

The White House isn't saying when it will appoint members to its new Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity, other than to suggest it will be “soon.”

The roles of the Commerce Department and National Institute of Standards and Technology in supporting the commission have yet to be spelled out.

But President Obama's executive order on Tuesday creating the commission set off the latest parlor game in cybersecurity policy circles: figuring out what this commission is going to be, who...