EM TC 03/24/03 Meeting Minutes

EM TC Meeting Minutes - 3/24/03

 

Attendees:

Allen Wyke (Chairperson)

Rick Carlton (Co-chair) - E Team

Cathy M Subatch (Secretary) - E Team

Jay Clark - Ship Analytics

Joyce Kern - SunGard

Dave Robinson - Wells Fargo

Gary Ham - DHS

Bona Nasition - MTG Management Consulting

Bill Schroeder - ESRI

Eliot Christian - DOI

Stephen Jepsen - Oracle

David Hall - Federal Support Systems

Art Botterell - Partnership for Public Warning

Michael C. Wilson - TranState Media

Karl Kotalik - NC4

Steve Siegel - RAMsafe

John Silva - Silva Consulting

Jerry Weltman (Observer)

Naseem (Observer)

 

Minutes:

Allen noted that there have been some difficulties posting to email due to the new collaboration system that OASIS has implemented.  He has been working on this issue.   Contact Allen if you are still having problems with email.

 

This week's agenda was to discuss:

1.  Final comments on the requirements document

2.  Subcommittees

3.  Face-to-face meeting agenda

 

Requirements Document:

Are there any other comments to the document.  Take comments until end of day and then post to member page.  Will be posted as a draft until TC votes to formalize document.  All members should read and become familiar with document

 

Subcommittees:

We have decided on three sub-commitees and their associated chairs.  All members need to determine which sub-commitee they want to join.  Each chair will take a first pass at a statement of purpose and post so that all can review before deciding which subcommittee to join.  At next week's face-to-face meeting, the subcommittees will work to create their own charter, statement of purpose and deliverables.  The three subcommittees agreed to are:
  
GIS - to be jointly chaired by Eliot   Christian and Bill Schroeder
  
Notifications, Methods and Messages - Art Botterell
  
Infrastructure - Rick Carlton

The third group was originally called Monitoring and Acquisition but Rick felt that it was not broad enough to address all issues that may relate to infrastructure.  This area should be concerned with the continuum - identify what are the components, how they interact and how they move around.   Decided to float the discussion of the subcommittee name for everyone to review this week - email any issues.
  
Eliot - We don't need to develop all standards, there are   infrastructure issues such RDS, Web Services, Security that aren't unique   to emergency management.  Individual members need to be aware of this but   we don't necessarily need a subcommitee to develop standards in those   areas.
  
Gary - we probably need to think about how to package them   instead
  
Rick - Numerous standards are emerging in web services that   accertain to web services.  Maybe we should call the group, "Adapted   Infrastructure."  Our function is to do research and identify applicable   standards
  
Michael - do we really want to take a wait and see   attitude.  OASIS doesn't have committees working on these areas
  
Rick - we need to consider the NIMS infrastructure.  We need   to be logically postioned to drive the thinking for that infrastructure.
  
Art - Conceptual level similar to what ComCare group prototype   effort.  Should use as a point of departure, a strawman
  
Eliot - From a standards perspective sounds like profiling.    Look at standards that are out there within the set of all web services with   an interoperability focus
  
Gary - Notion of management of services needs to be   understood

Face-to-Face Agenda

First Allen asked if there other topics we need to discuss at the face-to-face meeting besides working on the subcommittees.  

The meeting will start out focusing on the formal formation of the subcommitee and then have break out sessions to continue to work.  Other areas of discussion for the afternoon include:
  
Process to liaison to other standards groups
  
Web Services
  
How to best communicate with the EM-XML Executive Committee

Rick also gave a brief description of results of a recent meeting of EM-XML Consortium (Executive Committee and EM TC) members had with Steve Cooper, CIO, DHS.  There is potential for getting budget from Cooper downstream.  Need to draft verification, level exercises and potential budget.  Identify "wires and pliers" needed. Gary added that there is no budget currently available but money will "pop up" at the end of the government's fiscal year and there may be money left to fund a proof of concept (Sept) so we need to have a proposal ready.

Action Items:
  
Subcommittee Chairs - draft initial charter with email to solicit   feedback/are you interested? (scope and purpose)
  
Membership - decide which subcommittee to join
  
Membership - input to chairs of subcommittee on charter
  
Membership - to provide Allen with any other agenda items for next week's   meeting
  
Allen - provide agenda for April 3rd meeting
  
Allen - send email pointing to OASIS site on how to create a   subcommittee
  
Rex - send email when he learns more about NY Academy of Medicine, NY   portal on Public Health which is based on web services

Next Meeting

Due to our first face-to-face meeting next Thursday there will be no teleconference on Tuesday.

Next meeting will be Thursday, April 3rd, 9:30am - 4:30pm EST in Arlington, VA

Location: Federal Support Systems (host)

Camber Corporation, 1655 N. Fort Myer Drive, Arlington, VA 22209, 11th Floor in the SMART Technologies Conference Room

 

Cathy M. Subatch
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