OASIS Emergency Management TC

  • 1.  RE: [emergency] Emergency Interoperability Member Section

    Posted 11-28-2006 00:39 
    




    Elysa,
    

    I strongly urge the TC to reach out to the major public 
safety groups such as the International Assoc of Fire Chiefs (IAFC), 
International Assoc of Chiefs of Police (IACP), Assoc. of Public Safety 
Communications Officials - International (APCO), and the National Public Safety 
Telecommunications Council (NPSTC).
    

    These associations have the expertise in their respective 
fields and all participate on the international level. 
    

    Let's not lose focus that we are developing protocols for 
an international (as well as national, regional, state, and local levels). I 
respectfully suggest we coordinate our efforts with the groups I 
mentioned.
    

     
    

    Regards,
    

     
    

    Tom 
Merkle
    

     
    

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From: Elysa Jones 
[mailto:ejones@warningsystems.com]
    Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 
2:13 PM
    To: emergency@lists.oasis-open.org
    Cc: Scott 
Mcgrath
    Subject: [emergency] Emergency Interoperability Member 
Section

    

    Dear TC Members,

    I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving 
Holiday.  On 11/17, the draft meeting notes from our 11/14 were 
posted.  Our discussion about the member section was summarized. 

    It seems the following issues were prevalent:

    1.  There 
should be more public safety representation in the EIC if that board is to take 
on the initial role of the steering committee.  Brought up by Tom agreed to 
by Rex.  The Public Safety Communication Council and NENA were 
sited.

    Further info:  Chris Cooper is an EIC board member but in 
addition to his role at IBM, is an Assistant Fire Chief with the 
Latrobe Fire Protection District under schedule with CDF and has over 20 years 
of first responder experience.   ComCare is a NENA 
member.  The First Response Coalition might be joining the EIC.

    How 
should we reach out to other organizations or should the EIC?  How should 
they participate in the steering committee?

    2.  Scott McGrath was 
going to look into the WiFi, OGC Compliance Testing framework which is Open 
Source as well as the ISO/IEEE Models and report back to the 
group.

    3.  Thoughts on just standing the Member Section up for the 
mission of developing interoperability demonstrations at first and decide 
whether the test/certify/compliance piece is something we want to do via the 
member section at a later time.

    Please comment to the list on these 
topics.  We will have our EM-TC telecon meeting 1/28 at 12:00 
EST.

    Regards,
    Elysa Jones, Chair
    OASIS EM-TC
    Engineering Program 
Manager
    Warning Systems, Inc.


  • 2.  RE: [emergency] Emergency Interoperability Member Section

    Posted 11-28-2006 15:45 
    FWIW, I agree completely with Tom in this.

I'm sure that comes as no great surprise. I would add, and will do 
the research necessary, to add some groups for those with special 
needs, e.g. hearing, vision, mobility impaired constituencies, both 
national and international.

I would also like to suggest that we start considering, in 
consultation with DHS, and appropriate international bodies, 
developing an Emergency Management/Situational Awareness Information 
Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC).

Cheers,
Rex

At 7:39 PM -0500 11/27/06, Tom Merkle wrote:
>Elysa,
>I strongly urge the TC to reach out to the major public safety 
>groups such as the International Assoc of Fire Chiefs (IAFC), 
>International Assoc of Chiefs of Police (IACP), Assoc. of Public 
>Safety Communications Officials - International (APCO), and the 
>National Public Safety Telecommunications Council (NPSTC).
>These associations have the expertise in their respective fields and 
>all participate on the international level.
>Let's not lose focus that we are developing protocols for an 
>international (as well as national, regional, state, and local 
>levels). I respectfully suggest we coordinate our efforts with the 
>groups I mentioned.
>
>Regards,
>
>Tom Merkle
>
>CapWIN:


  • 3.  RE: [emergency] Emergency Interoperability Member Section

    Posted 11-28-2006 15:57 
    When you are ready, we have members who are accessibility experts, ranging
from Massachusetts Commission of the Blind to the UK Royal National
Institute for the Blind.  They are currently focusing on the Open Document
Accessibility SC, as part of the guidance we received from ISO and IEC.

Scott...

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