Some suggestions:
Current
Document Wording:
The
Contractor may be required to join the Emergency Interoperability Consortium
(EIC) (www.eic.org) which DHS has a Memorandum of Understanding with and
communicates to the vendor community concerning the EDXL
standards.
Suggested
Change:
The
Contractor is encouraged to join the Emergency Interoperability
Consortium (EIC) (www.eic.org) which DHS has a Memorandum of Understanding with
and communicates to the vendor community concerning the EDXL
standards.
Questions:
Should
the version numbers of DMIS, CAP, and EDXL be included in the document? I
believe they should be included.
Who is
responsible for checking the vendor for compliance with EDXL? Will there be an
independent certifying group (such as Wi-Fi) to ensure functional
compliance?
Regards,
Tom
Merkle
CapWIN:
www.capwin.org
Phone: (301)
614-3720
Cell Phone: (240)
375-1966
Fax:
(301) 614-0581
e-mail:
CapWIN
6305 Ivy Lane Suite 300
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Greenbelt, MD 20770
From: Elysa Jones
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Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005
6:25 PM
To:
Subject:
[emergency] Fwd: OASIS EM TC Category for EDXL standards
TC Members, I received the following email from Bill Kalin
representing the DHS/DM program. There is specific grant guidance language
proposed for our review. I would prefer discussion begin on the list and
then we can take it up at the next regular TC call 9/20. Elysa
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Subject: OASIS EM TC
Category for EDXL standards
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Elysa -
We have been asked by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to create
standardized RFI/RFP language that federal agencies would required to use when
seeking to purchase an incident management software application. We want
to be able to refer to EDXL as a single set of standards as opposed to listing
them all individually, including CAP. This is the first step in creating
common grant guidance language that will be required when local, tribal and
state governments are seeking to purchase incident management tools with DHS
grant money. We believe this will strongly facilitate the adoption of
standards within the vendor community and further develop this emerging
market.
What can be done via OASIS to help create this single
type of category under the OASIS TC? I am attaching a draft of proposed
language for the RFI/RFP's which includes a desired reference to the OASIS web
site.
Bill Kalin
Disaster Management eGov Initiative
Office of the Chief Information
Officer
Emergency Preparedness and Response/FEMA
Department of
Homeland Security
(202) 646-4347
