(PR) 45-day Public Review for Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL) Distribution Element Version 2.0

The OASIS Emergency Management TC [1] members have recently approved a
Committee Specification Draft (CSD) and submitted this specification for
45-day public review:
Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL)

Distribution Element Version
2.0

Committee Specification Draft 01 / Public Review Draft 01

08 November 2011
Specification Overview:
This Distribution Element 2.0 (DE 2.0) specification describes a standard
message distribution format for data sharing among emergency information
systems. The DE 2.0 serves two important purposes:
(1) The DE 2.0 allows an organization to wrap separate but related pieces
of emergency information, including any of the EDXL message types, into a
single "package" for easier and more useful distribution;
(2) The DE 2.0 allows an organization to "address" the package to
organizations or individuals with specified roles, located in specified
locations or those interested in specified keywords.
This version of the DE expands the ability to use local community-defined
terms, uses a profile of the Geographic Markup Language (GML), follows best
practices for naming conventions, provides the capability to link content
objects, and is reorganized for increased flexibility and reuse of common
types. The DE 2.0 packages and addresses emergency information for effective
distribution with improved standardization and tailorability for user needs.

TC Description:
The mission of the OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee is to
create incident and emergency-related standards for data interoperability.
The TC welcomes participation from members of the emergency management
community, developers and implementers, and members of the public concerned
with disaster management and response. Current EM TC efforts include the
Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL), a broad initiative to create an
integrated framework for a wide range of emergency data exchange standards to
support operations, logistics, planning and finance. Specific standards
include Common Alerting Protocol (EDXL-CAP), Distribution Element (EDXL-DE),
Hospital AVailability Exchange (EDXL-HAVE), Resource Messaging (EDXL-RM),
Reference Information Model (EDXL-RIM), Situation Reporting (EDXL-SitRep),
and Tracking Emergency Patients (EDXL-TEP).
Public Review Period:
The public review starts Friday, 9 December 2011 and ends 23 January
2011.
This is an open invitation to comment. OASIS solicits feedback from
potential users, developers and others, whether OASIS members or not, for the
sake of improving the interoperability and quality of its technical work.
URIs:
The complete package of the prose specification document and related files
are available in the ZIP distribution file at:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/44554/edxl-de-v2.0-csprd01.zip
Additional information about the specification and the OASIS Emergency
Management TC may be found at the TC's public home page:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/emergency/
Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person through the use of the
OASIS TC Comment Facility which can be located via the button labeled "Send A
Comment" at the top of the TC public home, or directly at:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/index.php?wg_abbrev=emergency
Comments submitted by TC non-members for this work and for other work of
this TC are publicly archived and can be viewed at:
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/emergency-comment/
All comments submitted to OASIS are subject to the OASIS Feedback License,
which ensures that the feedback you provide carries the same obligations at
least as the obligations of the TC members. In connection with this public
review of Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL)Distribution Element 2.0, we
call your attention to the OASIS IPR Policy [2] applicable especially [3] to
the work of this technical committee. All members of the TC should be
familiar with this document, which may create obligations regarding the
disclosure and availability of a member's patent, copyright, trademark and
license rights that read on an approved OASIS specification. OASIS invites
any persons who know of any such claims to disclose these if they may be
essential to the implementation of the above specification, so that notice of
them may be posted to the notice page for this TC's work.

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Additional references:
[1] OASIS Emergency Management TC

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/emergency/
[2] http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php
[3] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/emergency/ipr.php

http://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/ipr#s10.2.2

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Best Regards,
/chet

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Chet Ensign

Director of Standards Development and TC Administration

OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society

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