OASIS Emergency Management TC

Elysa, I've spoken to several folks who were on today's DHS "Practitioner Working Group" (PWG) call and who came away with the impression that the OASIS comment period would begin later this week.  As you point out, that's not possible.  Do you (or anyone else who might have been on that call) have any idea where they might have gotten that idea?

Also... it appears that DHS contractors have been conducting their own comment cycle within the PWG based on the original IPAWS requirement document from December... that's a bit confusing, but what really got me concerned is that there seems to have been a suggestion that some or all of those comments would be submitted to OASIS as part of our comment process, even though they relate to an entirely different document.  Do you (or again, anyone) have any insight into that?

- Art

Art Botterell, Manager
Community Warning System
Contra Costa County Office of the Sheriff
50 Glacier Drive
Martinez, California 94553
(925) 313-9603
fax (925) 646-1120
>>> 

Sounds like somebody got their wires crossed. They may have confused 
the pending SC decision Thursday about the revised document after 
today's changes are incorporated with TC's decision after TC has had 
the revised document from Thursday after the SC meeting till next 
Tuesday's TC meeting.

I thought we were pretty clear about that, but apparently not.

Cheers,
Rex

At 5:04 PM -0800 2/10/09, Art Botterell wrote:
>Elysa, I've spoken to several folks who were on today's DHS 
>"Practitioner Working Group" (PWG) call and who came away with the 
>impression that the OASIS comment period would begin later this 
>week.  As you point out, that's not possible.  Do you (or anyone 
>else who might have been on that call) have any idea where they 
>might have gotten that idea?
>
>Also... it appears that DHS contractors have been conducting their 
>own comment cycle within the PWG based on the original IPAWS 
>requirement document from December... that's a bit confusing, but 
>what really got me concerned is that there seems to have been a 
>suggestion that some or all of those comments would be submitted to 
>OASIS as part of our comment process, even though they relate to an 
>entirely different document.  Do you (or again, anyone) have any 
>insight into that?
>
>- Art
>
>Art Botterell, Manager
>Community Warning System
>Contra Costa County Office of the Sheriff
>50 Glacier Drive
>Martinez, California 94553
>(925) 313-9603
>fax (925) 646-1120
>>>>  

Art, I do not have any insight into where this impression could have 
originated.  It seems to me that we must make sure that we are as 
clear as possible about what we are doing so that we may maintain 
focus.  These other requests for input are a bit of a detraction but 
we need to try to stay focused on our drafted document.   We will 
take any comments during the comment period provided they are 
properly submitted per OASIS process.  We'll have to make sure that 
they reference the document we have voted into comment.  Since it 
will be a CD, we will have specific line number for each comment to 
relate.  That should help with the different documents floating 
around.  Thanks for your concern and continued support.  Regards, Elysa

At 07:04 PM 2/10/2009, Art Botterell wrote:

>Elysa, I've spoken to several folks who were on today's DHS 
>"Practitioner Working Group" (PWG) call and who came away with the 
>impression that the OASIS comment period would begin later this 
>week.  As you point out, that's not possible.  Do you (or anyone 
>else who might have been on that call) have any idea where they 
>might have gotten that idea?
>
>Also... it appears that DHS contractors have been conducting their 
>own comment cycle within the PWG based on the original IPAWS 
>requirement document from December... that's a bit confusing, but 
>what really got me concerned is that there seems to have been a 
>suggestion that some or all of those comments would be submitted to 
>OASIS as part of our comment process, even though they relate to an 
>entirely different document.  Do you (or again, anyone) have any 
>insight into that?
>
>- Art
>
>Art Botterell, Manager
>Community Warning System
>Contra Costa County Office of the Sheriff
>50 Glacier Drive
>Martinez, California 94553
>(925) 313-9603
>fax (925) 646-1120
> >>>