(PR) 45-day Public Review for Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL) Distribution Element Version 2.0

The OASIS Emergency Management TC [1] members have recently approved a  
Committee Specification Draft (CSD) and submitted this specification for  
45-day public review:

Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL) Distribution Element Version  
2.0

Committee Specification Draft 01 / Public Review Draft 01

08 November 2011 

Specification Overview:

This Distribution Element 2.0 (DE 2.0) specification describes a standard  
message distribution format for data sharing among emergency information  
systems. The DE 2.0 serves two important purposes: 

(1) The DE 2.0 allows an organization to wrap separate but related pieces  
of emergency information, including any of the EDXL message types, into a  
single "package" for easier and more useful distribution; 

(2) The DE 2.0 allows an organization to "address" the package to  
organizations or individuals with specified roles, located in specified  
locations or those interested in specified keywords. 

This version of the DE expands the ability to use local community-defined  
terms, uses a profile of the Geographic Markup Language (GML), follows best  
practices for naming conventions, provides the capability to link content  
objects, and is reorganized for increased flexibility and reuse of common  
types. The DE 2.0 packages and addresses emergency information for effective  
distribution with improved standardization and tailorability for user needs.  

TC Description: 

The mission of the OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee is to  
create incident and emergency-related standards for data interoperability.  
The TC welcomes participation from members of the emergency management  
community, developers and implementers, and members of the public concerned  
with disaster management and response. Current EM TC efforts include the  
Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL), a broad initiative to create an  
integrated framework for a wide range of emergency data exchange standards to  
support operations, logistics, planning and finance. Specific standards  
include Common Alerting Protocol (EDXL-CAP), Distribution Element (EDXL-DE),  
Hospital AVailability Exchange (EDXL-HAVE), Resource Messaging (EDXL-RM),  
Reference Information Model (EDXL-RIM), Situation Reporting (EDXL-SitRep),  
and Tracking Emergency Patients (EDXL-TEP).

Public Review Period:

The public review starts Friday, 9 December 2011 and ends 23 January  
2011.

This is an open invitation to comment. OASIS solicits feedback from  
potential users, developers and others, whether OASIS members or not, for the  
sake of improving the interoperability and quality of its technical work.

URIs:

The complete package of the prose specification document and related files  
are available in the ZIP distribution file at:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/44554/edxl-de-v2.0-csprd01.zip

Additional information about the specification and the OASIS Emergency  
Management TC may be found at the TC's public home page:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/emergency/

Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person through the use of the  
OASIS TC Comment Facility which can be located via the button labeled "Send A  
Comment" at the top of the TC public home, or directly at:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/index.php?wg_abbrev=emergency

Comments submitted by TC non-members for this work and for other work of  
this TC are publicly archived and can be viewed at:

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/emergency-comment/

All comments submitted to OASIS are subject to the OASIS Feedback License,  
which ensures that the feedback you provide carries the same obligations at  
least as the obligations of the TC members. In connection with this public  
review of Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL)Distribution Element 2.0, we  
call your attention to the OASIS IPR Policy [2] applicable especially [3] to  
the work of this technical committee. All members of the TC should be  
familiar with this document, which may create obligations regarding the  
disclosure and availability of a member's patent, copyright, trademark and  
license rights that read on an approved OASIS specification. OASIS invites  
any persons who know of any such claims to disclose these if they may be  
essential to the implementation of the above specification, so that notice of  
them may be posted to the notice page for this TC's work.

========== Additional references:

[1] OASIS Emergency Management TC

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/emergency/

[2] http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php

[3] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/emergency/ipr.php

http://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/ipr#s10.2.2

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Best Regards,

/chet

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Chet Ensign

Director of Standards Development and TC Administration

OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society

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