%0 Conference Paper %1 Gioa07 %A Gioachin, F. %A Shankesi, R. %A May, M.J. %A Gunter, C.A. %A Shin, Wook %D 2007 %J Internet Monitoring and Protection, 2007. ICIMP 2007. Second International Conference on %K emergency feed rss shibboleth %P 13-13 %R 10.1109/ICIMP.2007.15 %T Emergency Alerts as RSS Feeds with Interdomain Authorization %X Emergency alert systems typically demand push notification because of the infrequency of such events and the urgency of notifying parties about them. However, push notification systems like email have many limitations, such as susceptibility to SPAM and security vulnerabilities. We explore the idea of basing health alerts on RSS feeds, which are a polling-based notification system. Since emergency alerts may be restricted to parties like doctors or health administrators and may be drawn from diverse administrative domains, RSS for health alerts requires a mechanism for expressing and enforcing inter-domain access policies for feeds. In particular, we explore using Shibboleth, a federated identity system developed for use in universities, and an attribute-based policy language, to provide secure RSS for emergency alerts. We validate the approach by showing how it can be used to deliver CDC PHIN health alerts. Our experimental validation shows that, based on our design, existing server technologies can obtain acceptable throughput even with fairly complex and diverse access policies.

@inproceedings{Gioa07, abstract = {Emergency alert systems typically demand push notification because of the infrequency of such events and the urgency of notifying parties about them. However, push notification systems like email have many limitations, such as susceptibility to SPAM and security vulnerabilities. We explore the idea of basing health alerts on RSS feeds, which are a polling-based notification system. Since emergency alerts may be restricted to parties like doctors or health administrators and may be drawn from diverse administrative domains, RSS for health alerts requires a mechanism for expressing and enforcing inter-domain access policies for feeds. In particular, we explore using Shibboleth, a federated identity system developed for use in universities, and an attribute-based policy language, to provide secure RSS for emergency alerts. We validate the approach by showing how it can be used to deliver CDC PHIN health alerts. Our experimental validation shows that, based on our design, existing server technologies can obtain acceptable throughput even with fairly complex and diverse access policies.}, added-at = {2009-03-31T14:08:32.000+0200}, author = {Gioachin, F. and Shankesi, R. and May, M.J. and Gunter, C.A. and Shin, Wook}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2f72f83aeec6bcc4718d27a4cd754b2c4/boehr}, description = {We explore the idea of basing health alerts on RSS feeds, which are a polling-based notification system. Since emergency alerts may be restricted to parties like doctors or health administrators and may be drawn from diverse administrative domains, RSS for health alerts requires a mechanism for expressing and enforcing inter-domain access policies for feeds}, doi = {10.1109/ICIMP.2007.15}, interhash = {2da7e160f6634dc772995bccb1447c0e}, intrahash = {f72f83aeec6bcc4718d27a4cd754b2c4}, journal = {Internet Monitoring and Protection, 2007. ICIMP 2007. Second International Conference on}, keywords = {emergency feed rss shibboleth}, month = {July}, pages = {13-13}, timestamp = {2009-03-31T14:08:32.000+0200}, title = {Emergency Alerts as RSS Feeds with Interdomain Authorization}, year = 2007 }