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Meeting Minutes: 2003.07.01 (delayed)

  • 1.  Meeting Minutes: 2003.07.01 (delayed)

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    Subject: Meeting Minutes: 2003.07.01 (delayed)


    More old minutes that needed to be posted to the list....
    
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    Emergency Management TC
    July 1, 2003 Meeting Minutes
    
    [IF Subcommittee Update - Rick Carlton]
    * No data points to report.  Still progressing to pulling together rough
    cut of document. Making progress.  Everyone working independently on
    gathering data.  
    
    * Gary needs to provide elemental schema (have sent to Art).  Should get
    to Rick as well.  Close to reaching general consensus.  All patterned
    base and showing fair consistency.  
    
    * Committee plans to work in background and monitor what is done with
    CAP.
    
    * Don't want to make broad recommendation without any applicability
    within first cut.  
    
    [GIS Subcommitte Update - Eliot Christian]
    * Bill has put note out to GIS committee - a report on symbology. 
    Passing on note referring people to Federal Geographic committee HS
    working group that is working on symbology.  
    
    * Offering help to CAP folks on comment on precision.  Give guidance. 
    Revisited units of measure.  There is a disconnect in the way people use
    it - area is a circle with radius given in kilometers yet elevation,
    everyone deals in feet.  But checked on it and will stay with that.
    
    * Recent activity converging CAP alerts with geographic markup language
    (GML).  Generic set of XML objects used to describe shapes such as
    polygons.  GML is right way to show within CAPs.
    
    * Allen - have we done any comparison between different groups?  OGC
    versus GML, etc. - in relationship to emergency management?
    
      + Geospatial groups have converged - OGC is home to everything on
    geospatial.  Tend to build things that geospatial people understand. 
    Are the source of everything we do when relating to mapping.  Do we need
    to look at GIS subcommittee to provide us guidance?
    
      + Working to provide guidance on geospatial.  
    
        -> Eliot - Could liaison to homeland security working group.   
    
        -> Rick -Good for EM TC to be close to motivating group.  This group
    needs to focus on making decisions for itself and not being buffeted. 
    Do we want to leverage work or stay aware and stay supportive.
    
        -> Eliot - Need to bring do that group a set of standards work that
    they might be interestd.  Don't need liaison if only watch their work
    and take note of it.
    
        -> What does group think?  Are there among vendors represented - are
    there standards for symnology for mapping that they want to push or
    use?  Let Eliot know and then we can liaison with them.
    
    * Is your subcommittee aware of Kent State study?
    
      + EM community has put forth an issue that all systems don't use same
    symbology.  Eliot may see if they are aware of this study and check with
    symbology unit to see if they are aware
      
      + David Hall sent link to Kent State study:
    http://dept.kent.edu/geography/Dymon/symbology.htm
    
    [Notifications Subcommittee Update - Art Botterell]
    * Did presentation on CAP at Toronto Disaster Management conference. 
    Was well received.  Everyone likes conceptual model but no major
    feedback.  
    
    * Eliot working on mechanics of plotting a cap message onto the map
    using a layer of GML as an interface.  Won't need to be changes in CAP
    spec.
    
      + Good discussion on that work and arbitrary geocode problem and came
    up with strategy we may want to pursue.
    
    * New write up on XML cover pages on pubic review of CAP.  Any questions
    on CAP draft or review process - is out to public for review.   Posted
    on OASIS page for public?  Add link on TC page (Allen).  Is posted on
    old CAP working group page and mailed copies to key stakeholders
    
    * Allen - Is the committee ready to talk about reference
    implementation?  Blue292 wants to be one of reference implementation to
    see if we can get this working.  ComCARE Alliance has several
    demonstrations going on.  They put interoperability projects together
    and draw in multiple vendors to do demonstration.  May be able to build
    opportunities there.  Can build a venue where they can interoperate.  At
    some point this moves into Infrastructure space.
    
    * Reference implementations committee level - becomes a committee
    recommendation.  Make candidate for full OASIS status must commit as
    document with three reference implementations.  Need to make sure that
    specification stable enough to be built against with some degree of
    confidence.
    
    * Standards first, practical display of functionality and then pushed to
    OASIS as a document for review.  Must be documentation of standard in
    use.
    
    * Eliot - CAP is only XML schema - has no service
    
    * Want to have three separate players to validate.  Three OASIS members
    must provide letters that they are using standard.
    
    * Art - Need to do some high visibility demonstrations.
    
    * Allen make time to identify where this could be done such as sending
    something through CAPWin.
    
    * Discussion on this top should continue over email.
    
    [Action Items]
    * Allen and Art work on reference implementation and get back to group. 
    Next level of detail on timeline.
    
    * Allen - Email on Face to Face meeting
    
    * Allen - to add link to OASIS Coverpage article on CAP standards.
    
    [Next Meeting]
    * The next meeting will be a face-to-face meeting hosted by Gary Ham at
    the Batelle facility in Stafford, VA on Tuesday, July 15th at 10am
    PDT/1pm EDT.  There will be a dial in for those who cannot make the
    meeting.
    
    Dial in - 1.800.453.7412
    Access Code - 604776
    -- 
    R. Allen Wyke
    Chair, Emergency Management TC
    emtc@nc.rr.com
    http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/emergency
    
    


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