Notes on OASIS EI goals and value proposition

Thanks to David L, Elysa, Dee, and Scott McGrath for calling in today to
discuss the Member Section's goals and help articulate a value proposition for
joining the MS.

We drafted the following five major areas of activity for the MS. Please review
and send your comments back to this list ASAP. We need to finalize these in
order to incorporate them into the press release and web site.

1. Identify and discuss interoperability issues; work with the TC to ensure
these issues are addressed. Target issues related to:
 -telematics (crash data)
 -computer-aided dispatch
 -consequence management
 -situational awareness models

2. Identify areas where new standards are needed in order to enable complete
solutions. Encourage formation of new TCs or Subcommittees to advance this
work.

3. Encourage national and local government agencies to support and advocate the
use of emergency standards as a means to enable innovation, freedom of choice,
and open access to information.

4. Address global interoperability issues for emergency standards.

5. Drive demand for standards-compliant products/services through education;
identify markets that use the data generated by emergency standards.

We also discussed prospects for the MS. I will draft an invitation to join and
David has agreed to send it out to EIC members. We identified the following
prospects for membership:

SYS Technologies
USGS
Khaki
SEIC

If you can recommend any contacts for Dee to pursue at the above
organizations--or can suggest other organizations we should be
targeting--please let Dee know ASAP. Your help on this is really critical.

Thanks,
Carol

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Carol Geyer
Director of Communications
OASIS
+1.978.667.5115 x209

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