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Synchronization of unique identifiers across security domains

Title
Synchronization of unique identifiers across security domains / by Mark R. Mittrick and Gary S. Moss.
Author
Mittrick, Mark R.
Publication
Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD : Army Research Laboratory, February 2009.

Available Online

https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo126372

Details

Additional Authors
  • Moss, Gary S.
  • U.S. Army Research Laboratory, issuing body
Subject
  • United States. Department of Defense. Global Force Management System
  • Uniform Resource Identifiers
Note
  • "February 2009."
  • "ARL-MR-712."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (page 9).
Type of Report (note)
  • Final
Call Number
GPO Internet D 101.133/3:0712
OCLC
402290418
Author
Mittrick, Mark R., author.
Title
Synchronization of unique identifiers across security domains / by Mark R. Mittrick and Gary S. Moss.
Publisher
Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD : Army Research Laboratory, February 2009.
Description
1 online resource (vi, 12 pages) : color illustrations
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (page 9).
Type Of Report
Final, October 2005-February 2009.
Summary
The main thrust of the Global Force Management Data Initiative (GFM DI) is the standardization and exposure of force structure information across the Department of Defense (DOD) components. The GFM Community of Interest developed the GFM extensible markup language schema definition to facilitate the exchange of information between and within the DOD enterprise. To implement the GFM DI, each component must instantiate an Organizational Server (Org Server) that can provide data conforming to this published schema. Key to this data standardization effort is the ability to refer to any GFM DI element via an identifier that is unique across the enterprise, called a Force Management Identifier. This capability is being implemented using a construct called Enterprise-wide Identifiers (EwID), developed by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory in 2001. A Web application called an EwID Enterprise Seed Server (ESS) manages the allocation of EwID prefixes, which Org Servers use to generate EwIDs. Maintaining a single-point control of this process assures that all EwID prefixes, and therefore EwIDs, are unique. However, for the GFM DI to be truly global, the information must be consistent across security domains. Thus, EwIDs will be unique regardless of the classification level of the associated data. The GFM DI is addressing this requirement by implementing a cross domain solution that enables a classified instance of the ESS to delegate an EwID Seed request to an unclassified instance of the ESS.
Funding
9TV0VC
Source of description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ARL, viewed September 30, 2019).
Connect to:
https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo126372
Added Author
Moss, Gary S., author.
U.S. Army Research Laboratory, issuing body.
Report No.
ARL-MR-712
Gpo Item No.
0324-A-04 (online)
Sudoc No.
D 110.133/3:0712
Research Call Number
GPO Internet D 110.133/3:0712
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