Public Review of Emergency Management EDXL-DE v1.0 Specification

["Mary McRae" <mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org>]

To:  OASIS members, public announce lists

     The OASIS Emergency Management TC has approved the following specification as a Committee Draft and approved for public review:

      Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL) Distribution Element, v1.0

The public review starts today, 17 February 2006, and ends 4 March 2006. This specification was previously submitted for a 60-day
public review on 29 August, 2005[1]; the 15-day review is limited in scope to changes made from the previous review. A list of
changes is provided in Appendix D. This is an open invitation to comment. 

     Public review from potential users, developers and stakeholders is an  important part of the OASIS process to assure
interoperability and quality.  Comments are solicited from all interested parties. Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person
via a web form found on the TC's web page at http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/emergency. Click the button for "Send A Comment"
at the top of the page. Direct access to the comment form is available at
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/form.php?wg_abbrev=emergency.

     Submitted comments (for this work as well as other works of that 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,
to assure that the comment may be freely re-used by the TC; the license terms can be found on the comment web-form.

The specification and related documents are available here:

Microsoft Word (source): 
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/16664/EDXL-DE_Spec_v1%5B1%5D.0%2812%29.doc
pdf:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/16665/EDXL-DE_Spec_v11%200%2812%29.pdf
html:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/16726/EDXL-DE_Spec_v1%5B1%5D.0%2812%29.html

 OASIS and the Emergency Management Technical Committee welcome your comments.

Mary P McRae
Manager of TC Administration, OASIS
email: mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org
OASIS Symposium: The Meaning of Interoperability, 9-12 May, San Francisco http://www.oasis-open.org/events/symposium_2006/


[1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200508/msg00006.html