OASIS Emergency Management TC

Thought the following might be of interest. I collaborate with the authors 
of the referenced paper as part of the OGC standards collaboration work with the 
IETF. While this work is at a deeper layer in the internet infrastructure 
than the work of the EM TC, I know that a number of your organizations deal with 
PSAPS and NENA and other groups that do worry about the topics discussed in this 
paper.
 
A group of IETF geopriv/ecrit standards collaborators have written a paper 
on
"Protecting First-Level Responder Resources in an IP-based Emergency
Services Architecture".  They submitted it to the NetCri workshop
(see http://www.cs.umd.edu/~sharno/NetCri07/) 
and with the permission of
the workshop program chairs they are allowed 
to distribute it already
before the workshop (which will be April 13th, 
2007).

Please find the camera ready version of the paper here:
http://www.ietf-ecrit.org/TEMP/Emergency-Service-Security.pdf

The 
purpose of the paper is to give an overview of currently discussed
solution 
proposals in order to stimulate a discussion about potential
follow-up work 
that may need to be done in this area.

Carl Reed, PhD
CTO and Executive Director Specification 
Program
OGC
 
The OGC: Helping the World to Communicate Geographically
 
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Thanks Carl,


It's good to be aware of these developments. One tends to think
that these relatively young technologies are more mature than they
are. For instance, today InformationWeek ran a small item that
highlights a flaw of which I was unaware in my Treo SmartPhone which
puts data at risk from incoming calls
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197006515


And, since I just put my former fax line, computer workstation
handsfree phone on Vonage to cut down the long distance agony of my
many TC  and other professional committee activities, it is
important to understand the intricacies of how 911 works.


Taken together these two technologies overlap to make a
significant risk.


Cheers, (uh maybe) ;-)
Rex


At 10:38 AM -0700 2/19/07, Carl Reed OGC Account wrote:
Thought the following might be of
interest. I collaborate with the authors of the referenced paper as
part of the OGC standards collaboration work with the IETF. While this
work is at a deeper layer in the internet infrastructure than the
work of the EM TC, I know that a number of your organizations deal
with PSAPS and NENA and other groups that do worry about the topics
discussed in this paper.
 
A group of IETF geopriv/ecrit standards
collaborators have written a paper on

"Protecting First-Level Responder Resources in an IP-based
Emergency

Services Architecture".  They submitted it to the NetCri
workshop

(see http://www.cs.umd.edu/~sharno/NetCri07/) and with the permission
of

the workshop program chairs they are allowed to distribute it
already

before the workshop (which will be April 13th, 2007).


Please find the camera ready version of the paper here:

http://www.ietf-ecrit.org/TEMP/Emergency-Service-Security.pdf


The purpose of the paper is to give an overview of currently
discussed

solution proposals in order to stimulate a discussion about
potential

follow-up work that may need to be done in this area.


Carl Reed, PhD

CTO and Executive Director Specification Program

OGC
 
The OGC: Helping the World to Communicate
Geographically
 
---------------------
 
This communication, including
attachments, is for the exclusive use of addressee and may contain
proprietary, confidential or privileged information. If you are not
the intended recipient, any use, copying, disclosure, dissemination or
distribution is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended
recipient, please notify the sender  immediately by return email
and delete this communication and destroy all copies.
 
"The important thing is not to stop
questioning." -- Albert Einstein

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." -- Helen
Keller





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