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Subject: Re: [emergency] NewsBriefs, articles, notes for publication release in jlocationservices


Both of these look great!

As a side note, in reference to Eliot's article, he does an excellent  
job of putting a, for lack of a better phrase, "marketing spin" on CAP  
without getting into the technical details. Have said such, however,  
evolving other documentation/materials/etc., such as the planned  
Implementer's Guide to support those statements, while not required,  
would go a long way to validate "how" to apply CAP in these situations.

Allen

On Mar 28, 2004, at 3:06 PM, Rex Brooks wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> While I can't yet guarantee that my contact, Christopher Lakey, will  
> be able to get a special issue of the jlocations newsletter on CAP out  
> by Monday afternoon-evening, I have not received the word to just let  
> it slide, so I am going to supply herein the one thing I am writing, a  
> newsbrief-report on the "Interoperability Now!" event March 11, along  
> with an attached article included in a post from Eliot Christian  
> recently, and a few notes about what I have put together so far. I  
> have asked Eliot for permission to republish the article, and won't  
> use without that permission. I doubt I would have time to paraphrase  
> and then attribute my paraphrasing, and I certainly don't have time to  
> build my own article at this time.
>
> I am also explaining what else I am trying to include.
>
> I will use our Fact Sheet with a brief introduction for the main  
> feature. It is fairly short and easy to grasp.
>
> This Introduction contains a reference and link to the Cover Pages  
> article on CAP which is very informative and authoritative. I will  
> repeat that in the set of links for for the issue to sources and  
> references.
>
> I have a url for the notice about CAP in the recently published CapWIN  
> newsletter, which will be included in the set of links for the issue  
> to sources and references.
>
> I have sent a message to DMIS asking for permission to excerpt from  
> their presentation to this TC last May 21, 2003. slides 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,  
> 10, 20 with a very brief description of DMIS and what an  
> interoperability service is.
>
> If I were to receive the other reports, I would happy to include them.
>
> Here is my very brief report on Interoperability Now!
>
> Interoperability Now!
>  by Rex Brooks, co-chair, OASIS EM (Emergency Management) Messages and  
> Notification Subcommittee (SC)
>
> Much of the following report is excerpted from a recent message by Art  
> Botterell, co-chair, OASIS EM Messages and Notification SC, to the  
> mailing list he maintains for the working group which began the work  
> of developing The Common Alerting Protocol, CAP, which was  
> subsequently brought under the aegis of the OASIS Emergency Management  
> Technical Committee.  The Interoperability Now! event, held March 11,  
> 2004, which included a demonstration of CAP interoperability, was  
> organized by Congressmember Carl Weldon following a similar  
> demonstration during the Global Homeland Security Conference held in  
> Washington D.C.  September 24-26, 2003.
>
> The Interoperability Now! event highlights the current context of CAP.  
> The Emergency Management Technical Committee of the international  
> Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards  
> (OASIS) has voted to approve The CAP 1.0 Committee Draft for  
> submission as a standard to OASIS. It's currently being voted upon by  
> the OASIS member organizations.
>
>  Recently, the ComCARE Alliance and the Emergency Interoperability  
> Consortium took CAP to Capitol Hill on March 11th, 2004.  As part of a  
> program called "Interoperability Now!" an operating network of  
> CAP-based applications were shown to legislators, staff and agency  
> representatives in the Rayburn House Office Building.  Participants in  
> the CAP demo included the DHS DMIS (Disaster Management  
> Interoperability Services) program, MyStateUSA, Warning Systems Inc.,  
> the Contra Costa County (CA) Community Warning System and  
> mobileFoundations, Inc.
>
>  According to Art Botterell, a member of the OASIS Emergency  
> Management Technical Committee and a participant in Partnership for  
> Public Warning, attended the event and reported that David Aylward of  
> ComCARE described it as "CAP's debutante ball, saying, " It did feel a  
> bit like that, actually."
>
> Art reported that  "the technology demonstration also featured the  
> "E-Safety Network" and the "Emergency Provider Access Directory"  
> projects being spearheaded by ComCARE members ... systems for  
> geospatial imaging and radio/telephone interconnection ...  It was  
> preceded by a series of panel sessions covering various aspects of  
> standards-based interoperable  communication. ..."
>
>  Among the notable news that Art collected was the item that, "Pete  
> O'Dell of the Oregon RAINS project dropped by the demo event to  
> mention that they've now processed over 87,000 CAP messages in their  
> system. ..." and "... Elsewhere, the California Office of Emergency  
> Services has issued a contract to update its Emergency Digital  
> Information Service system to more fully integrate CAP. 
>
>  Art also reports to his list that "... we've been contacted by a  
> research team in Western Australia who're putting together a CAP-based  
> integrated warning methodology demo Down Under.
>
>  Art noted in closing his message, "...we're bringing CAP from concept  
> to reality, faster than expected but not sooner than we need it . ..."
>
> Gary Ham, of DMIS, and an OASIS Emergency Management Technical  
> Committee member, also attended the event as a participant in the  
> demonstration which consisted of two demonstration networks, the DMIS  
> transport system which provides a CAP API which can be used via SOAP  
> in a web services-based implementation for sending and receiving CAP  
> alert messages, and the ComCARE E-Safety EMERGENCY PROVIDER ACCESS  
> DIRECTORY (EPAD), which can receive CAP alert messages through an  
> intelligent message broker service.  Gary reported that the event was  
> well-attended.
>
>  Included in the demonstration was a mobile computer backpack which  
> points toward one of the next challenges to interoperability of  
> emegency response capabilities, sending and receiving updates from  
> rapidly evolving emergency sites. Thus, future considerations were  
> included within the overall theme of the "Interoperability Now!"   
> event.
>
> Well, that's what there is of it at this particular moment in time. I  
> would love to say that it might expand before I could report it back  
> to y'all, but I can't.
>
> If you see showstoppers in here somewhere, it would be best to let me  
> know. I plan to to send it off this evening.
>
> Ciao,
> Rex
> --  
>
> Rex Brooks
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