Emergency Management 05/20/03 Meeting Minutes

Emergency Management Technical Committee

May 20, 2003 Meeting Minutes

Attendees are listed on OASIS site.

Meeting Notes

EM-XML Update

The EM-XML Executive Committee was having its next meeting on Thursday, May 22nd.  Allen reviewed a presentation that he will use to bring the committee up-to-date on work done by the TC.

Q1 objectives have been met/accomplished

Q2 - will have standards work done by end of second quarter

Q3 - compliance suites/scenarios and best practices

Notable progress has been made in the three subcommittees

Have brought CAP in under the Messaging subcommittee

Next steps - finalizing CAP drafts and completing requirement documents for other SCs.  Then start working on implementation guides.

DMI- Services API Discussion

DMI was sponsoring a discussion of their API on Wednesday.  Please see attached for presentation from that meeting.

Notifications Subcommittee Update - Art Botterell

The top focus is to get out the CAP work.  Currently on schedule with this work

Create a short hand process

Requirements document

Use scenarios

Moving toward building object models

XML schema and implementation notes fall out of that

Projects in queue

Recommended XMLifications of Core ICS forms

Incident Notification Message - working through how to address

Had CAP Workshop at recent Partnership for Public Warning conference.  Another workshop is scheduled for Disaster Management conference in Toronto next month.  

Focused on terminology and definitional meaning

Challenge is to engage with non-technical practitioner community

GIS - Eliot Christian

Looked at CAP requirements from GIS expertise

OPEN location services from OpenGIS is overkill for CAP

Better solution is to advise CAP data dictionary on refinements (what are assumptions behind)

Deal with elevation - starting proposal

Write as note to CAP group

Education finished in immediate needs but available for more if asked.

Outstanding issue -- symbology

Infrastructure Framework - Rick Carlton

Group is looking at multiple standards.  Each member is assigned to review associated standards.  Going through these infrastructure standards to find binary points to use.   Per Rick's meeting minutes on 05/14 standards being reviewed included:

A. OASIS B-PEL

B. OASIS WSIA/WSRP 0.95

C. OASIS UDDI

D. DOJ Schema Structure 

E. MICROSOFT Addressing standard

F. W3C RDF

 

Additionally, certain holistic industry web services/segment architectures are also under active review. They are:  

A. IBM

B. Oracle

C. Microsoft 

D. Prism 

E. Health Management Standards

Rex mentioned that the group may want investigate ebXML for its registries.

Discussion around security

Art - non-tecnnical users need assurance that we are addressing their security needs.  Want to make recommendation on security tied to CAP

Allen- Define preferred means to transfer data which leads to security

Rick - that is already intrinsic to the charter

Eliot - maybe we want to think about starting another separate subcommittee to focus on security

Rick - security is one of the five areas of focus for the Infrastructure Framework subcommittee

Rex - need to state where/which protocols we are getting security standards from

Art - include by referencing some established security frameworks

Rick - will get info to the TC within the next month

Issues

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Action Items

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