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Subject: Re: [emergency] NewsBriefs, articles, notes for publication release in jlocationservices
Both of these look great!
As a side note, in reference to Eliot's article, he does an excellent
job of putting a, for lack of a better phrase, "marketing spin" on CAP
without getting into the technical details. Have said such, however,
evolving other documentation/materials/etc., such as the planned
Implementer's Guide to support those statements, while not required,
would go a long way to validate "how" to apply CAP in these situations.
Allen
On Mar 28, 2004, at 3:06 PM, Rex Brooks wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> While I can't yet guarantee that my contact, Christopher Lakey, will
> be able to get a special issue of the jlocations newsletter on CAP out
> by Monday afternoon-evening, I have not received the word to just let
> it slide, so I am going to supply herein the one thing I am writing, a
> newsbrief-report on the "Interoperability Now!" event March 11, along
> with an attached article included in a post from Eliot Christian
> recently, and a few notes about what I have put together so far. I
> have asked Eliot for permission to republish the article, and won't
> use without that permission. I doubt I would have time to paraphrase
> and then attribute my paraphrasing, and I certainly don't have time to
> build my own article at this time.
>
> I am also explaining what else I am trying to include.
>
> I will use our Fact Sheet with a brief introduction for the main
> feature. It is fairly short and easy to grasp.
>
> This Introduction contains a reference and link to the Cover Pages
> article on CAP which is very informative and authoritative. I will
> repeat that in the set of links for for the issue to sources and
> references.
>
> I have a url for the notice about CAP in the recently published CapWIN
> newsletter, which will be included in the set of links for the issue
> to sources and references.
>
> I have sent a message to DMIS asking for permission to excerpt from
> their presentation to this TC last May 21, 2003. slides 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,
> 10, 20 with a very brief description of DMIS and what an
> interoperability service is.
>
> If I were to receive the other reports, I would happy to include them.
>
> Here is my very brief report on Interoperability Now!
>
> Interoperability Now!
> by Rex Brooks, co-chair, OASIS EM (Emergency Management) Messages and
> Notification Subcommittee (SC)
>
> Much of the following report is excerpted from a recent message by Art
> Botterell, co-chair, OASIS EM Messages and Notification SC, to the
> mailing list he maintains for the working group which began the work
> of developing The Common Alerting Protocol, CAP, which was
> subsequently brought under the aegis of the OASIS Emergency Management
> Technical Committee.� The Interoperability Now! event, held March 11,
> 2004, which included a demonstration of CAP interoperability, was
> organized by Congressmember Carl Weldon following a similar
> demonstration during the Global Homeland Security Conference held in
> Washington D.C.� September 24-26, 2003.
>
> The Interoperability Now! event highlights the current context of CAP.
> The Emergency Management Technical Committee of the international
> Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
> (OASIS) has voted to approve The CAP 1.0 Committee Draft for
> submission as a standard to OASIS. It's currently being voted upon by
> the OASIS member organizations.
>
> Recently, the ComCARE Alliance and the Emergency Interoperability
> Consortium took CAP to Capitol Hill on March 11th, 2004.� As part of a
> program called "Interoperability Now!" an operating network of
> CAP-based applications were shown to legislators, staff and agency
> representatives in the Rayburn House Office Building.� Participants in
> the CAP demo included the DHS DMIS (Disaster Management
> Interoperability Services) program, MyStateUSA, Warning Systems Inc.,
> the Contra Costa County (CA) Community Warning System and
> mobileFoundations, Inc.
>
> According to Art Botterell, a member of the OASIS Emergency
> Management Technical Committee and a participant in Partnership for
> Public Warning, attended the event and reported that David Aylward of
> ComCARE described it as "CAP's debutante ball, saying, " It did feel a
> bit like that, actually."
>
> Art reported that� "the technology demonstration also featured the
> "E-Safety Network" and the "Emergency Provider Access Directory"
> projects being spearheaded by ComCARE members ... systems for
> geospatial imaging and radio/telephone interconnection ...� It was
> preceded by a series of panel sessions covering various aspects of
> standards-based interoperable� communication. ..."
>
> Among the notable news that Art collected was the item that, "Pete
> O'Dell of the Oregon RAINS project dropped by the demo event to
> mention that they've now processed over 87,000 CAP messages in their
> system. ..." and "... Elsewhere, the California Office of Emergency
> Services has issued a contract to update its Emergency Digital
> Information Service system to more fully integrate CAP.�
>
> Art also reports to his list that "... we've been contacted by a
> research team in Western Australia who're putting together a CAP-based
> integrated warning methodology demo Down Under.
>
> Art noted in closing his message, "...we're bringing CAP from concept
> to reality, faster than expected but not sooner than we need it . ..."
>
> Gary Ham, of DMIS, and an OASIS Emergency Management Technical
> Committee member, also attended the event as a participant in the
> demonstration which consisted of two demonstration networks, the DMIS
> transport system which provides a CAP API which can be used via SOAP
> in a web services-based implementation for sending and receiving CAP
> alert messages, and the ComCARE E-Safety EMERGENCY PROVIDER ACCESS
> DIRECTORY (EPAD), which can receive CAP alert messages through an
> intelligent message broker service.� Gary reported that the event was
> well-attended.
>
> Included in the demonstration was a mobile computer backpack which
> points toward one of the next challenges to interoperability of
> emegency response capabilities, sending and receiving updates from
> rapidly evolving emergency sites. Thus, future considerations were
> included within the overall theme of the "Interoperability Now!"�
> event.
>
> Well, that's what there is of it at this particular moment in time. I
> would love to say that it might expand before I could report it back
> to y'all, but I can't.
>
> If you see showstoppers in here somewhere, it would be best to let me
> know. I plan to to send it off this evening.
>
> Ciao,
> Rex
> --
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> Rex Brooks
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