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Subject: Re: [emergency] EDXL-DE routing and valueListUrn
David -
While I understand the urgency and while I do not necessarily disagree with
the contents of your slides on a National Effort for Emergency Data
Distribution, I would like to add a few words of caution.
First, what you have outlined are uses cases and requirements for one domain
of use - alerts as related to secure US DoD sensor nets. I deal with folks
doing sensor systems and networks in a number of other countries - all
civilian. Any of these applications using sensors can create alerts. For
example, a new water portal in Canada that will send alerts based on stream
flow gauges, traffic alerts being generated by the new generation of ITS
capabilities, weather alerts, and systems function alerts being generated by
transducers, and so forth. We cannot loose sight of all the other potential
use cases that drives the requirements for EDXL - now and in the future.
Second, and related to the first, is the fact that OASIS is an international
standards organization. As such, we cannot ignore requirements for using
EDXL that may be extremely viable in other countries. It is unfortunate that
we have had little input from organizations in other countries that have
requirements similar to the US DoD. That is why I am very pleased with the
progress of the Sensor Standards Harmonization work that NIST is
spearheading.
Third, we would be remiss in ignoring the potential for alerts coming from
the emerging sensor nets being designed, built, and fairly recently deployed
for home systems and office buildings (office sensor networks are much more
mature). See http://www.usipv6.com/CES_Presentations/CES_Itaru_Mimura.pdf as
well as all the work being done at UCLA (SOS) and Sun (SUN SPOT). These
systems are envisioned as being able to automatically generate alerts (fire,
carbon monoxide, health, etc).
Finally, and anyone (someone) correct me if I am wrong, but perhaps the
COMCARE EPAD system would be a repository/registry solution.
So, I agree that current DHS and DoD requirements are very valid and those
requirements must be answered by EDXL. But let's make sure we remain
balanced in our approach so that other communities outside DoD and DHS are
also fairly represented at that CAP and EDXL have used well beyond.
Cheers
Carl