XDDS: A Scalable Guard-Agnostic Cross Domain Discovery Service

Abstract

As both the DoD and the Intelligence Community (IC) are moving toward service-oriented architecture (SOA), it is important to ensure that SOA-based systems can operate and exchange classified information across domain boundaries in support of net-centric missions. The interplay between SOA and cross domain solutions (CDS) raises a number of challenges that are grounded in the inherent mismatch between core SOA principles, such as loose coupling, composability, and discoverability, and current CDS technologies and certification and accreditation processes in use today. The Cross Domain Discovery Service (XDDS) described in this paper provides an architecture and design for extending service discovery, a core SOA functionality, across domain boundaries. The resulting services and protocols provide access to service information across security domains in a secure, guard-agnostic, scalable, and flexible way that is amenable to certification and accreditation (C&A).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA556039

Entities

People

  • Jonathan Webb
  • Joseph Loyall
  • Michael Atighetchi
  • Michael J. Mayhew

Organizations

  • RTX

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Authentication
  • Boundaries
  • Communities
  • Computer Access Control
  • Computer Science
  • Cross Domain
  • Department Of Defense
  • Electronic Mail
  • Information Operations
  • Intelligence Community
  • Intelligence Community (United States)
  • Military Operations
  • Security
  • Standards
  • Web Service

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Systems Analysis and Design