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Subject: RE: [emergency] Adapted Infrastructure Subcommittee Charter -First draft for discussion (from Gary Ham)
Forwarded on behalf of Gary... -----Forwarded Message----- > From: "Ham, Gary A" <hamg@BATTELLE.ORG> > To: 'emtc@nc.rr.com' <emtc@nc.rr.com> > Subject: RE: [emergency] Adapted Infrastructure Subcommittee Charter - Fir st draft for discussion > Date: 31 Mar 2003 15:51:18 -0500 > > I tried to sent the following to the mailing list but was bounced. I am > getting posts. I just cannot send them. > > Regarding the Infrastructure Subcommittee Charter: > I am a bit confused. Are we talking standards for information or for process > or for both? Or are we also talking about the actual control function of the > "information space" for the emergency information? Or the information > parameters to be shared which would facilitate that control. I think that we > need a bit more in the way of specifics in the statement of purpose. The > scope is still a bit cloudy to me. > Over time, I believe that it will be in the Federal interest to establish an > official infrastructure for information sharing in a controlled environment. > This organization and facilitation of such a controlled "information space" > available to all who are authorized is the primary (and fully approved) goal > of the DHS Disaster Management eGov initiative. It is the essential charter > for the program. Industry standards play an important role in assuring that > the interfaces to this controlled information space are clean and well > understood such that all commercial efforts have the ability to share on a > fair and equal basis. More importantly, it allows the information content > that can be shared to grow because the growth of effective commercial > applications will provide far more substance, sooner, to our responders and > the citizens they support. > The Disaster Management Initiative is therefore committed to implementing > effective commercial standards within its official interoperability > infrastructure. That these standards might be used for less official (even > uncontrolled) information exchanges is also not a bad thing. There needs to > be some flexibility in the information space. The controlled space (like > controlled airspace for commercial aviation) is an inherently governmental > function. > Respectfully, > Gary Ham > -----Original Message----- > From: RCarlton@eteam.com [mailto:RCarlton@eteam.com > <mailto:RCarlton@eteam.com> ] > Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 7:52 PM > To: emergency@lists.oasis-open.org > Subject: [emergency] Adapted Infrastructure Subcommittee Charter - First > draft for discussion > > ADAPTED INFRASTRUCTURE SUBCOMMITTEE - STATEMENT OF PURPOSE > > While it is agreed that development of EM functional standards are critical > to the production of interoperable applications, the doctrinal emergence of > NIMS (National Incident Management System) additionally implies compliance > with certain common, as well as dissimilar, network and services > infrastructures governing global delivery and deployment. Since elemental > work in infrastructure development (OASIS, W3C, IBM, Oracle etc.) has been > progressing for some time it is illogical for the EM-TC to evolve its own > standards from a clean sheet. As an adjunct to the committee's work, > however, and in order to insure standardized, end-to-end interoperability > the committee will analyze and adapt various elements of current and > emerging work as a component of its standardized EM topology. This, then, is > the purpose of the proposed sub-committee. > > LIST OF DELIVERABLES > > To be defined during the 4.3.03 meeting. > > > > > Gary Ham > > "You would be surprised what you can accomplish when you do not care who > gets the credit." - Harry S. Truman > > > -- R. Allen Wyke Chair, Emergency Management TC emtc@nc.rr.com http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/emergency
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