FYI: New paper "Protecting First-Level Responder Resources in an IP-based Emergency Services Architecture

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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