RE: [emergency] EDXL-DE routing and valueListUrn

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2006-03-20T23:57:30+00:00
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RE: [emergency] EDXL-DE routing and valueListUrn
Title: Re: [emergency] EDXL-DE routing and valueListUrn

Carl

 

All of scenarios you have proposed could 
use seperate valueListUrn to control distribution of data 
within defined Area of Responsiblities.  If transfer of data is needed 
between these AORs, methods for exchanging messages are avaiable.  When can 
we talk about this.  I believe all of your domain issues are potential 
misunderstandings how routing is accomplished.  

 

David E. Ellis

Information Management Architect

(505) 844-6697

From: Carl Reed OGC Account 
[mailto:]
Sent: Mon 3/20/2006 4:20 
PM
To: Ellis, David; SIA Pilot-6; 

Cc: Harry Haury; Haleftiras, Pericles; 
Glaser, Ronald
Subject: Re: [emergency] EDXL-DE routing and 
valueListUrn

David -

While I understand the urgency and while I do not 
necessarily disagree with
the contents of your slides on a National Effort 
for Emergency Data
Distribution, I would like to add a few words of 
caution.

First, what you have outlined are uses cases and requirements 
for one domain
of use - alerts as related to secure US DoD sensor nets. I 
deal with folks
doing sensor systems and networks in a number of other 
countries - all
civilian. Any of these applications using sensors can create 
alerts. For
example, a new water portal in Canada that will send alerts based 
on stream
flow gauges, traffic alerts being generated by the new generation 
of ITS
capabilities, weather alerts, and systems function alerts being 
generated by
transducers, and so forth. We cannot loose sight of all the 
other potential
use cases that drives the requirements for EDXL - now and in 
the future.

Second, and related to the first, is the fact that OASIS is 
an international
standards organization. As such, we cannot ignore 
requirements for using
EDXL that may be extremely viable in other countries. 
It is unfortunate that
we have had little input from organizations in other 
countries that have
requirements similar to the US DoD. That is why I am very 
pleased with the
progress of the Sensor Standards Harmonization work that 
NIST is
spearheading.

Third, we would be remiss in ignoring the 
potential for alerts coming from
the emerging sensor nets being designed, 
built, and fairly recently deployed
for home systems and office buildings 
(office sensor networks are much more
mature). See http://www.usipv6.com/CES_Presentations/CES_Itaru_Mimura.pdf 
as
well as all the work being done at UCLA (SOS) and Sun (SUN SPOT). 
These
systems are envisioned as being able to automatically generate alerts 
(fire,
carbon monoxide, health, etc).

Finally, and anyone (someone) 
correct me if I am wrong, but perhaps the
COMCARE EPAD system would be a 
repository/registry solution.

So, I agree that current DHS and DoD 
requirements are very valid and those
requirements must be answered by EDXL. 
But let's make sure we remain
balanced in our approach so that other 
communities outside DoD and DHS are
also fairly represented at that CAP and 
EDXL have used well beyond.

Cheers

Carl

----- Original 
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From: "Ellis, David" <>
To: "SIA 
Pilot-6" 
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Cc: 
"Harry Haury" <>; "Haleftiras, 
Pericles"
<>; "Glaser, Ronald" 
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Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2006 10:11 
AM
Subject: [emergency] EDXL-DE routing and 
valueListUrn

ALL

I have a reasonably mature strategy for 
creating valueListUrn lists and
how they can be used to deploy a national 
architecture for Alerting and
Warning.  I have been trying to develop 
this to support Chips Disaster
Management efforts (e.g. EDXL-RM) and to allow 
for national sensor
capabilities (e.g. DNDO) to have the EDXL-DE routing 
system (execution
context) which provides the following 
capabilities:

1. Allow for establishment of Communities of Interest 
(COIs) where
appropriate authority can establish roles of entities, 
information
routing rules between them and issue certificate to 
ensure
authentication and authorization.
2. Permit interaction between 
COIs to instantiate robust MOUs enforced
by execution context allowing 
creation of national information grid.
3. Permit secure delivery of multiple 
levels of sensitive information
via signing, encryption and labeling within 
the EDXL-DE.
4. Allow abstraction of the implementation details (what) so 
national
planners can implement various operational concepts (documented 
in
DoDAF, FEA etc.) with minimal confusion on "how" it is 
accomplished.

I have tried to engage NIEM for over one year to explain 
these concepts
without success.  There is finally understanding between 
the various
standards organization on how important this is to major 
government
implementations.  On the other hand, major information 
providers are
claim our capabilities either don't exist or have never 
been
demonstrated.  Both are not true and in fact the EDXL-DE is being 
used
in an operational system within the DoD.  Unfortunately, it is 
not
branded as EDXL-DE since we have not issued the EDXL-DE OASIS 
standard
yet.

I need as many of the organization implementing EDXL-DE 
to attempt
sending outputs from your applications to the developing EDXL-DE 
routing
capability at NuParadigm in Saint Louis or our capability at 
Sandia
National Laboratories.  Also, a generic ability to wrap CAP 
messages in
EDXL has been created and we need to discuss the security 
implications
of doing this from local applications or by the "execution 
context" for
legacy/warning-only CAP applications.

I need to be able 
to list all the capabilities of your applications even
if they use explicated 
routing (e.g. DMIS COGs) and have no security
capability.  The design of 
our governments emerging national
capabilities is moving at lighting speed 
and EDXL-DE capabilities needs
to be a substantial portion of it.  
Attached are two briefings present
this past week on sensor 
routing.

David E. Ellis
Information Management Architect
(505) 
844-6697

-----Original Message-----
From: 

[mailto:] 
On Behalf Of Elysa Jones
Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2006 11:23 AM
To: 
Rex Brooks
Cc: 
Subject: Re: [sia-pilot6] 
[emergency] EDXL-DE Committee Draft

Yes, that is a good point.  I 
too want us to start coming up with these
"managed lists" knowing full well 
that NIEM wont be providing us
anything
in the near term.  I had 
thought too that we could use the event list,
incident type, etc. that were 
provided in the original draft hand off as
a
starting place.  Maybe 
we should put these in examples and put them in
the
cookbook?  I too 
think the Govt agencies will not step up to this for
some
time and I am 
glad the registry is being developed in the pilot.  We do
need another 
company though that can sign up for the "use" for the
committee specification 
phase.  I seem to be focused most these days on
jumping through the 
hoops for ratification.  Regards, Elysa

At 10:07 AM 2/25/2006, Rex 
Brooks wrote:
>Just to clarify, it isn't DMIS or IEM that needs to have a 
keyword/list
in
>place, but they do need to be using some values in 
those fields that
can
>be recognized and used by all of us, or by 
others that need and have
>permissions to do so. We didn't address that 
level of permissions, and
I
>doubt that anyone will start restricting 
these initial efforts, but it
IS
>another place where security measures 
can be imposed if appropriate,
and
>since our pilot is building a 
registry where these pointers or the
actual
>resources can reside, I 
wanted to mention it.  While I want to be fair
to
>gov agencies, I 
suspect they will have a more difficult time getting
the
>funding 
resources, considering the Congress' recent actions with 
regard
to
>"any" already approved E-Gov program movement of monies 
preparatory to
>actual spending, the chances are good that what the 
organizations in
this
>TC actually produce will be the default system 
for quite some time to
>come, so I want to suggest to everyone that they 
bear that in mind and
>approach work going forward in the next six months 
or so as if this
will
>be all the system there will be for the next 
year. Once what we build
>shows that it works, then I suspect there will 
quickly be a wealth of
>resources 
available.
>
>Regards,
>Rex
>
>At 4:12 AM -0600 
2/25/06, Elysa Jones wrote:
>>Hey Rex, Welcome back.  I hope your 
trip went well.  As for the 3
"users"
>>of the EDXL-DE, I think 
Sandia, IEM and DMIS volunteered to make the
>>statement about 
"use."  We wont be able to use Sandia though since
Dave
>>has 
an individual membership.  I'll put a note out to the list 
shortly
to
>>ask who will be our third and if there is any keywords 
they must have
in
>>place.  Elysa
>>
>>At 
10:15 PM 2/24/2006, Rex Brooks wrote:
>>>Yes, this is all 
true,
>>>
>>>However, we still need 3 member 
organizations to vouch that they
"use"
>>>it as part of the move 
to an OASIS-wide vote, so we need to be
implmenting 
it.
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>Rex
>>>
>>>P.S. 
This means that we need to get an EventType Keyword/List 
and
>>>Sender/Recipient Keybord/List, etc, published by the 
appropriate
groups.
>>>
>>>>Hey 
Tim,
>>>>Yes, the next TC call is 3/9.  Whether we pull it 
now and make a
change
>>>>or wait until another round we could 
still not get it to a final
OASIS
>>>>vote until May given the 
calendar process requirements. The
Committee
>>>>Draft has to 
be to OASIS for 5 business days before going to 15 day
>>>>review 
and must be back from 15 day review, comments 
addressed,
voted
>>>>Committee Specification and back to OASIS 
by the 15th of the month
>>>>prior to the ratification 
vote.  We are on a tight schedule for a
vote
>>>>the last 
2 weeks of April even if we receive no 
substantive
comments.
>>>>Thanks for your 
input,
>>>>Elysa
>>>>
>>>>At 12:31 
PM 2/22/2006, Tim Grapes 
wrote:
>>>>>All,
>>>>>Do I correctly recall 
that our next TC meeting won't be 
conducted
until
>>>>>March 9?  If so, I recommend we 
lay out our cards now in case
anyone feels
>>>>>the option 
to pull back and re-publish is 
warranted.
>>>>>
>>>>>My input is that this 
is simply a typo that can be corrected 
after
this
>>>>>15-day review.   However, if 
others feel the error truly is
substantive, I
>>>>>feel we 
should pull it back, make the correction, and 
republish
ASAP
>>>>>rather
>>>>>than 
incurring an additional 15-day public 
comment.
>>>>>
>>>>>Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>>Tim 
Grapes
>>>>>Evolution Technologies, 
Inc.
>>>>>Disaster Management egov 
Initiative
>>>>>Science and Technology 
Directorate/OIC
>>>>>Department of Homeland 
Security
>>>>>Office:  (703) 
654-6075
>>>>>Mobile:  (703) 
304-4829
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>-----Original 
Message-----
>>>>>From: Elysa Jones [mailto:]
>>>>>Sent: 
Wednesday, February 22, 2006 1:06 PM
>>>>>To: 

>>>>>Subject: [emergency] 
EDXL-DE Committee Draft
>>>>>
>>>>>TC 
Members,
>>>>>
>>>>>As discussed on our call 
yesterday, there are a couple of issues
with 
the
>>>>>EDXL-DE that have been brought to light from within 
the TC.  We are
not
>>>>>able to make any changes to 
the posted documents until after the 
15
day
>>>>>review.  That review is schedule to end 
March 4.  The only comments
so far
>>>>>have come from 
within the TC although I fully expect some comments
as 
the
>>>>>end draws near.  The most significant comment is 
the problem with
the
>>>>>schema not matching the 
DOM.  The DOM is correct and the place 
most
folks
>>>>>look for understanding of what is 
presented.
>>>>>
>>>>>I have discussed our 
situation with Mary McRae, our OASIS staff
contact 
to
>>>>>determine our most efficient method to proceed.  
She said that if
in the
>>>>>mind of the TC, the schema 
would be considered non-normative, it
could be
>>>>>changed 
as any other typo or correction that is non-substantive
after 
the
>>>>>15-day review is 
complete.
>>>>>
>>>>>If we do feel that the 
correction of the schema is 
substantive,
another
>>>>>15-day comment period would be 
required.  In that case, we could
pull 
the
>>>>>current 15-day review, make the change and 
re-publish.  Or we could
wait
>>>>>until this period 
is over, make our corrections and re-post 
for
another
>>>>>15-day review.  In either case, the 
document has to go to OASIS 
by
the
>>>>>15th
>>>>>of the month prior 
to the month of the vote.  With a 
successful
15-day
>>>>>review in this round, we will be 
able to submit to OASIS by the
15th of
>>>>>March and thus 
an OASIS wide vote the last 2 weeks of April.  
A
second
>>>>>15-day review no matter how it happens will 
postpone the OASIS wide
vote
>>>>>until the last 2 weeks of 
May.
>>>>>
>>>>>That is where we stand now 
and there is no real need for a 
decision
at
>>>>>this
>>>>>point.  
Please consider whether you feel the incorrect schema 
is
>>>>>substantive or not and let me know the will of the TC 
as to how 
we
>>>>>proceed.
>>>>>
>>>>>Regards,
>>>>>Elysa 
Jones
>>>>>Chair, OASIS 
EM-TC
>>>>>Engineering PRogram 
Manager
>>>>>Warning Systems, 
Inc.
>>>>>
>>>>>
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Design
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