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Subject: NewsBriefs, articles, notes for publication release injlocationservices
Title: NewsBriefs, articles, notes for publication release
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Hi Folks,
While I can't yet guarantee that my contact, Christopher Lakey,
will be able to get a special issue of the jlocations newsletter on
CAP out by Monday afternoon-evening, I have not received the word to
just let it slide, so I am going to supply herein the one thing I am
writing, a newsbrief-report on the "Interoperability Now!"
event March 11, along with an attached article included in a post from
Eliot Christian recently, and a few notes about what I have put
together so far. I have asked Eliot for permission to republish the
article, and won't use without that permission. I doubt I would have
time to paraphrase and then attribute my paraphrasing, and I certainly
don't have time to build my own article at this time.
I am also explaining what else I am trying to include.
I will use our Fact Sheet with a brief introduction for the main
feature. It is fairly short and easy to grasp.
This Introduction contains a reference and link to the Cover
Pages article on CAP which is very informative and authoritative. I
will repeat that in the set of links for for the issue to sources and
references.
I have a url for the notice about CAP in the recently published
CapWIN newsletter, which will be included in the set of links for the
issue to sources and references.
I have sent a message to DMIS asking for permission to excerpt
from their presentation to this TC last May 21, 2003. slides 5, 6, 7,
8, 9, 10, 20 with a very brief description of DMIS and what an
interoperability service is.
If I were to receive the other reports, I would happy to include
them.
Here is my very brief report on Interoperability Now!
Interoperability Now!
by Rex Brooks, co-chair, OASIS EM (Emergency Management) Messages and
Notification Subcommittee (SC)
Much of the following
report is excerpted from a recent message by Art Botterell, co-chair,
OASIS EM Messages and Notification SC, to the mailing list he
maintains for the working group which began the work of developing The
Common Alerting Protocol, CAP, which was subsequently brought under
the aegis of the OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee.
The Interoperability Now! event, held March 11, 2004, which included a
demonstration of CAP interoperability, was organized by Congressmember
Carl Weldon following a similar demonstration during the Global
Homeland Security Conference held in Washington D.C. September
24-26, 2003.
The Interoperability Now!
event highlights the current context of CAP. The Emergency Management
Technical Committee of the international Organization for the
Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) has voted to
approve The CAP 1.0 Committee Draft for submission as a standard to
OASIS. It's currently being voted upon by the OASIS member
organizations.
Recently, the ComCARE Alliance and the Emergency Interoperability
Consortium took CAP to Capitol Hill on March 11th, 2004. As part
of a program called "Interoperability Now!" an operating
network of CAP-based applications were shown to legislators, staff and
agency representatives in the Rayburn House Office Building.
Participants in the CAP demo included the DHS DMIS (Disaster
Management Interoperability Services) program, MyStateUSA, Warning
Systems Inc., the Contra Costa County (CA) Community Warning System
and mobileFoundations, Inc.
According to Art Botterell, a member of the OASIS Emergency Management
Technical Committee and a participant in Partnership for Public
Warning, attended the event and reported that David Aylward of ComCARE
described it as "CAP's debutante ball, saying, " It did feel
a bit like that, actually."
Art reported that
"the technology demonstration also featured the "E-Safety
Network" and the "Emergency Provider Access Directory"
projects being spearheaded by ComCARE members ... systems for
geospatial imaging and radio/telephone interconnection ... It
was preceded by a series of panel sessions covering various aspects of
standards-based interoperable communication.
..."
Among the notable news that Art collected was the item that,
"Pete O'Dell of the Oregon RAINS project dropped by the demo
event to mention that they've now processed over 87,000 CAP messages
in their system. ..." and "... Elsewhere, the California
Office of Emergency Services has issued a contract to update its
Emergency Digital Information Service system to more fully integrate
CAP.
Art also reports to his list that "... we've been contacted by a
research team in Western Australia who're putting together a CAP-based
integrated warning methodology demo Down Under.
Art noted in closing his message, "...we're bringing CAP from
concept to reality, faster than expected but not sooner than we need
it . ..."
Gary Ham, of DMIS, and an
OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee member, also attended
the event as a participant in the demonstration which consisted of two
demonstration networks, the DMIS transport system which provides a CAP
API which can be used via SOAP in a web services-based implementation
for sending and receiving CAP alert messages, and the ComCARE E-Safety
EMERGENCY PROVIDER ACCESS DIRECTORY (EPAD), which can receive CAP
alert messages through an intelligent message broker service.
Gary reported that the event was well-attended.
Included in the demonstration was a mobile computer backpack which
points toward one of the next challenges to interoperability of
emegency response capabilities, sending and receiving updates from
rapidly evolving emergency sites. Thus, future considerations were
included within the overall theme of the "Interoperability
Now!" event.
Well, that's what there is of it at this particular moment in
time. I would love to say that it might expand before I could report
it back to y'all, but I can't.
If you see showstoppers in here somewhere, it would be best to
let me know. I plan to to send it off this evening.
Ciao,
Rex
Tel: 510-849-2309
Fax: By Request
Alerting.doc
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