Friends - Trust this is getting close to final. For your review and
comment. (Allen, plase feel free to correct the subcommittee names
when taking this forward.) - Art
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Charter
NOTIFICATION METHODS AND MESSAGES
OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee
revised 4-11-2003
At any moment the "operational picture" perceived by each individual
and organization represents the accumulation and fusion of various
streams of incoming information. The accuracy and completeness of
that operational picture, and the quality of the decisions based upon
it, depend in large part on the scope, transparency and efficiency of
the incoming information flows. And the effectiveness of coordinated
effort among individuals and agencies depends in large part on their
having access to the same flows of information (including information
about each other's status and intentions) and thus sharing a common
operational picture.
The EM Notification Methods and Messages Subcommittee ("the
Subcommittee") will address procedures and formats for exchanging new
and updated information related to functions including public safety,
emergency response and homeland security. Specifically, the
Subcommittee will undertake three immediate projects:
- Review and refinement of contributed work from the Common Alerting
Protocol (CAP) Working Group;
- Design and development of an Incident Notification message format
(which may be implemented in terms of the CAP framework or
separately); and,
- Development of a core set of messages to support the National
Incident Management System as mandated in Homeland Security
Presidential Directive #5
(<http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/02/20030228-9.html>),
based on established Incident Command System (ICS) forms (for
examples, see <http://216.202.128.19/dr/PDF/AppendixC.pdf>).
The Subcommittee plans to advance the first of these deliverables to
the full EM Technical Committee within the second calendar quarter of
2003.
In the course of developing these deliverables, the Subcommittee will
draw on the expertise of the EM GIS, EM Infrastructure Framework and
EM Liaison Subcommittees. In addition, the Subcommittee may make
recommendations to the full EM Technical Committee as regards
education and outreach activities involving end-users.