OASIS Emergency Management TC

  • 1.  IF-SC meeting today at 11ET - moving DE 2.0 forward

    Posted 02-12-2013 15:01
    Sorry for the triple post – but want everyone to be aware of the meeting today.   This is a reminder that there will be a meeting of the IF-SC today that may be of interest to all members.  We will discuss the DE 2.0 now that it has completed public review.  We anticipated a comment would be submitted regarding the layer extension concept but that has not happened.  As that idea came from within the TC, I wanted everyone to be aware that the comment has not been submitted.  There has been no additional postings that I can find indicating this change needed for DE2.0.  However, I want to be sure we are all in agreement as to the best way to move the DE forward.  If you have an interest in this topic, please be on the call or post a reply to this note with your input.  If we are all happy with the DE as it is, we will vote it out of the SC and it will be up to the EM-TC to vote to advance it to a Committee Specification and the remaining process to OASIS Standard.   Kind regards, Elysa


  • 2.  Re: [emergency] IF-SC meeting today at 11ET - moving DE 2.0 forward

    Posted 02-12-2013 16:18
    > find indicating this change needed for DE2.0. However, I want to be sure we > are all in agreement as to the best way to move the DE forward. If you have > an interest in this topic, please be on the call or post a reply to this > note with your input. If we are all happy with the DE as it is, we will I'm not happy with the DE as it is. My feeling is that there has been a lot of time invested by the IF-SC on DE 2.0 and Jeff and others have done very well keeping the work going with the limited participation so far. While I think there are some technical problems with the DE 2.0 draft, to me the larger concern is the lack of any interested community for the DE itself. The latest draft went out with some substantial and controversial changes and no comments were received. That says to me that no-one even bothered to read the draft. Where is the community of users who should be invested in where DE 2.0 is going? DE 1.0 suffered from poor uptake/adoption, and I'm concerned DE 2.0 is fairing even worse. The community needs to step up. I'd like to propose that an effort be made to re-engage the DE community prior to moving the spec forward any further. Feedback is sorely needed on whether it will meet the needs of the community and see any sort of uptake. To that end, I think the current draft provides a "release candidate" that developers could begin using. Either this TC or the Adoption TC could arrange for a DE technical interop (virtual, no participation fee) in the coming months and reach out to all potential DE users and ask for their participation. Actually using and building systems to participate in this interop will help to focus attention on the current draft and elicit comments and feedback on where it works and where it doesn't. Finally, like past events, this interop would also help with the statements of use needed for final vote later. -- Jacob Westfall <jake@jpw.biz>


  • 3.  RE: [emergency] IF-SC meeting today at 11ET - moving DE 2.0 forward

    Posted 02-12-2013 16:24
    Thank you Jacob for your comment. We are discussing it on the call now. Elysa