EM TC Notifications, Methods and Messages 05/20/03 Meeting Minutes

Emergency Management Technical Committee

Notifications, Methods and Messages Subcommittee

May 20th, 2003

Attendees:

Art Botterell (chair)

Naseem Elkarra

Jerry Weltman

Gary Ham

Jason Gilliam

Ory Washenbot

John Aerts

Allen Wyke

Cathy Subatch

Meeting Minutes

Notes from  Partnership for Public Warning CAP Workshop 

Art mailed out notes to SC the evening before meeting so all did not have a chance to review.  Will review and comment for next meeting.

Guidance on Security Infrastructure

We need a recommendation on security.  This is especially important to our non-technical users.  This should address authenticity, message integrity and in some cases, privacy.

Eliot - use RFS as a way of thinking of security

John - should follow W3C recommendations.  XML and PKI to authenticate down to the granular level.  MS is cooperating big time around this.  

Specific elements of our own security include key management, PKI and digital signature

This issue cuts across the entire TC

Allen - why don't we pose to the Infrastructure Framework subcommittee that we need a preferred way to exchange standards and let them work on the details.  That SC should take ownership of the security issue.

Eliot - we must give the SC common streams

Allen - provide use cases and scenarios to the Infrastructure SC and let them determine security options

Other Issues

CAP Requirement document - is now at the TC level.

Notification Schema discussion -  Need understanding of how it is being used and what the purpose of the schema is.  Gary promised to provide to SC by next meeting.  Gary gave a quick overview, "ability of sharing basic incident information to virtual organizations registered in the DMI-S network, " but will also provide a summary of the business problem being solved.

ICS Forms - David Hall is working on and will present to team when he has the time - hopefully in a few weeks.

Action Items

Circulate object model - Art

Notification Schema statement of purpose (what problem is it addressing) - Gary

Next Meeting

Next meeting will be Tuesday, May 27th at 9:30am PDT/12:30pm EDT

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