FWIW, I agree completely with Tom in this.
I'm sure that comes as no great surprise. I would add, and will do
the research necessary, to add some groups for those with special
needs, e.g. hearing, vision, mobility impaired constituencies, both
national and international.
I would also like to suggest that we start considering, in
consultation with DHS, and appropriate international bodies,
developing an Emergency Management/Situational Awareness Information
Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC).
Cheers,
Rex
At 7:39 PM -0500 11/27/06, Tom Merkle wrote:
>Elysa,
>I strongly urge the TC to reach out to the major public safety
>groups such as the International Assoc of Fire Chiefs (IAFC),
>International Assoc of Chiefs of Police (IACP), Assoc. of Public
>Safety Communications Officials - International (APCO), and the
>National Public Safety Telecommunications Council (NPSTC).
>These associations have the expertise in their respective fields and
>all participate on the international level.
>Let's not lose focus that we are developing protocols for an
>international (as well as national, regional, state, and local
>levels). I respectfully suggest we coordinate our efforts with the
>groups I mentioned.
>
>Regards,
>
>Tom Merkle
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>From: Elysa Jones [mailto:]
>Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 2:13 PM
>To:
>Cc: Scott Mcgrath
>Subject: [emergency] Emergency Interoperability Member Section
>
>Dear TC Members,
>
>I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving Holiday. On 11/17, the
>draft meeting notes from our 11/14 were posted. Our discussion
>about the member section was summarized.
>
>It seems the following issues were prevalent:
>
>1. There should be more public safety representation in the EIC if
>that board is to take on the initial role of the steering committee.
>Brought up by Tom agreed to by Rex. The Public Safety Communication
>Council and NENA were sited.
>
>Further info: Chris Cooper is an EIC board member but in addition
>to his role at IBM, is an Assistant Fire Chief with the Latrobe Fire
>Protection District under schedule with CDF and has over 20 years of
>first responder experience. ComCare is a NENA member. The First
>Response Coalition might be joining the EIC.
>
>How should we reach out to other organizations or should the EIC?
>How should they participate in the steering committee?
>
>2. Scott McGrath was going to look into the WiFi, OGC Compliance
>Testing framework which is Open Source as well as the ISO/IEEE
>Models and report back to the group.
>
>3. Thoughts on just standing the Member Section up for the mission
>of developing interoperability demonstrations at first and decide
>whether the test/certify/compliance piece is something we want to do
>via the member section at a later time.
>
>Please comment to the list on these topics. We will have our EM-TC
>telecon meeting 1/28 at 12:00 EST.
>
>Regards,
>Elysa Jones, Chair
>OASIS EM-TC
>Engineering Program Manager
>Warning Systems, Inc.
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