Re: [emergency] FYI: New paper "Protecting First-Level ResponderResources in an IP-based Emergency Services Architecture

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Title: Re: [emergency] FYI: New paper "Protecting First-Level Res

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
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