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Here is an amended version of the RIM minutes from September 22, 2011. Minor corrections were made based on feedback at today's meeting. Thanks.

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Jeff Waters
Document Name :  FINAL-EDXL-RIM-SC-MtgNotes-09-22-2011-1.doc
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Minor typo revisions of the original draft document, summarized below:

 At the September 22nd meeting of the OASIS Emergency Management Reference  Information Model subcommittee, the members discussed the following  topics:

 1. TOPIC: Should elements such as ?certainty?, ?severity?, ?urgency?,  ?confidence?, ?priority? be elements in common types? (Answer: Probably,  because they are important meta-components of any standard and our  definition of them can help guide standardized-usage in current and future  specifications. The RIM perspective is how to make the suggested common  elements as reusable as possible across the standards. The DE 2.0 draft now  includes certainty, severity and urgency. SitRep includes confidence for  reports. But at this point, they are not in the common types. Issues: What  is the threshold for deciding what goes into common types and what level of  scrutiny is required? Should flexibility be provided for localized  definitions of values (with defaults) or require a fixed set of values? )

 2. TOPIC: Should we recommend that we follow the OASIS recommendation for  handling checksums to ensure downloaded files are correct? (Answer: Yes.  Martena Gooch recommended that we consider this important issue. Although  various suggestions have been made, it appears there is an OASIS staff  recommendation for how to handle this. We will follow up with an email in  response to Robin Cover and see if we can get a clarification on the OASIS  process for doing the checksum and how soon it will be implemented. Then we  can inform the EM TC membership and suggest that we utilize the process.  Issue: Can the checksum be used for component parts of a zip as well as the  entire zip?)

 3.  TOPIC: Should we use a class-based approach to representing EDXL  elements in an ontology-based reference information model? (Answer: Yes,  this provides better support for reasoning.  Rex is proceeding to extend  his ValueList Ontology and we will compare to Jeff's version so that we can  come up with a recommended approach to the ontology modeling.)
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Submitter : Jeff Waters
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Date submitted : 2011-10-06 11:19:35