Thanks Tom for the input and for copying those additional public safety
representatives that might be interested in this pursuit. Scott, can you
help us with a cross-walk of these memberships with OASIS
membership? I was thinking that the steering committee had to have
an OASIS affiliation. Also, I saw on the list where a member
section was soliciting from all OASIS members participants for their
steering committee. Maybe you could also enlighten us on why that
would be. Thanks, Elysa
At 06:39 PM 11/27/2006, 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
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From: Elysa Jones
[ejones@warningsystems.com">
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.