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Please review these minutes of the November 22, 2011 meeting of the IF subcommittee for approval at our upcoming meeting, subject to any specified changes. Thanks.

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Jeff Waters
Document Name :  DRAFT-11-22-11-Minutes-IF-Subcommittee.doc
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At the November 22, 2011 meeting of the Infrastructure Framework  Subcommittee, the members discussed the following topics:

 1.  TOPIC: Now that the Distribution Element 2.0 Committee Specification  Draft is working its way toward public review, should we plan to do some  specific reachout?
(Answer: Yes. Specific groups that we should contact  include Tactical Situation Object, ISO Technical Committee 223 Societal  Security, IAEM Standards and Practices, OMG, NIEM, and NCOIC. How best to  perform the reachout should be discussed at the full Emergency Management  Technical Committee meeting.)

 2.  TOPIC: Are there specific initiatives we could get started on in  support of education and adoption of the Distribution Element (DE) 2.0?
(Answer: Possibly. One example is the resolution of use of DE with HL7  (Health Level 7), which has its own header format. We should bring this up  for discussion at the full Emergency Management Technical Committee  meeting. Perhaps someone on the HL7 committee would be interested in also  participating in this Infrastructure Framework subcommittee. How ISO is  intending to use the DE with the TSO is also an important initiative to  address. Elysa will contact OASIS staff to arrange a telecon with ISO 223  folks.)

 3.  TOPIC: Can we use the JIRA Issue Tracker to support handling DE 2.0  comments from here on out and during public review?
(Answer: Yes.  Martena, Lew and Jeff will get up-to-speed, with Chet's help and Rex can  advise from his experience utilizing JIRA as SitRep moves through its  current public review.)

 4.  TOPIC: How do we best explain and encourage usage of value lists and  get them published?
(Answer: We should create a demonstration value list  for this purpose,  which could be the default lists from the DE and also  one of the NIEM lists. Additional discussion of this topic is  recommended.)

 5.  TOPIC: Are there related information framework efforts we should  consider?
(Answer: Yes. One is the NCOIC framework which Rex is helping  to develop. Patterns exist within the framework which helps consumers and  providers understand the services and how to use them.)

 6.  TOPIC: Can we consider an initiative to use the new DE 2.0 in OPEN?
(Answer:  The good news is that there is interest in FEMA, and also that  IPAWS has maintained the original DE infrastructure support, so the ground  has been plowed but most likely a new effort will be needed to sew the DE  2.0 seed.)
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Date submitted : 2011-12-06 07:45:05