OASIS Emergency Management TC

  • 1.  Re: [emergency] Special EM-TC Meeting today 5pm

    Posted 02-10-2009 14:52
    I really must protest.  This is the second special meeting on this topic this week, and again we're given less than 24 hours notice.  If we're serious about discussing this issue, seems like adequate notice would be essential.
    
    Anyway, why are we rushing this?  FEMA has already advised us they expect this first Profile development cycle to be only the first in a series of iterations, so surely we have time to follow our usual process.
    
    - Art  
    


  • 2.  Re: [emergency] Special EM-TC Meeting today 5pm

    Posted 02-10-2009 15:33
    I understand, Art,
    
    For my part, the motivation is not so much to accommodate the needs 
    of FEMA, for which I think we've done our best, but to get us back on 
    a normal schedule next week. Otherwise, we can't settle this until 
    next Tuesday at the regularly scheduled TC meeting, after which we 
    still need to complete the SC work, and either wait ANOTHER two weeks 
    for the next TC meeting to vote on the Committee Draft or else call a 
    Special Meeting for the following week (three weeks from now) for the 
    vote to take it into the 60-Day Public Review. This scenario pushes 
    the Public Review into a March-April timeframe. So, if we can't deal 
    with this fairly and expeditiously now, we're looking at another 
    three or four weeks with this profile sitting in the middle of our 
    schedules, and that's what I'd like to avoid.
    
    Just to remind everyone, we made similar adjustments for EDXL-HAVE 
    and EDXL-RM last fall, and we've made similar adjustments either 
    accommodating special meetings or delaying decisions for EDXL-DE and 
    for the CAP 1.1 errata.
    
    While I'm sure we would all prefer that our processes ran more 
    smoothly, experience indicates that we make adjustments when we feel 
    it is necessary. I think this is one of those times. If we can air 
    these issues fairly and reach a decision now, we can vote to move 
    this work forward to its 60-Day Public Review in our regularly 
    scheduled TC meeting next week, and then we can all take a deep 
    breath and look forward to the next steps for this effort and for the 
    work on its way to us.
    
    Cheers,
    Rex
    
    At 6:50 AM -0800 2/10/09, Art Botterell wrote:
    >I really must protest.  This is the second special meeting on this 
    >topic this week, and again we're given less than 24 hours notice. 
    >If we're serious about discussing this issue, seems like adequate 
    >notice would be essential.
    >
    >Anyway, why are we rushing this?  FEMA has already advised us they 
    >expect this first Profile development cycle to be only the first in 
    >a series of iterations, so surely we have time to follow our usual 
    >process.
    >
    >- Art 
    >


  • 3.  RE: [emergency] Special EM-TC Meeting today 5pm

    Posted 02-10-2009 15:36
    I must agree with Art. I'm trying to digest OASIS material at a tremendous
    pace and still perform due diligence to the material.
    
    Tom Merkle
    


  • 4.  RE: [emergency] Special EM-TC Meeting today 5pm

    Posted 02-10-2009 16:00
    While I don't agree, I certainly understand.
    
    It looks like I'm going to be on the wrong side of the decision to 
    have a special meeting or not. But that's life.
    
    Cheers,
    Rex
    
    
    At 10:35 AM -0500 2/10/09, Merkle, Tom wrote:
    >I must agree with Art. I'm trying to digest OASIS material at a tremendous
    >pace and still perform due diligence to the material.
    >
    >Tom Merkle
    >