Re: [Fwd: [emergency] Questions on ASN.1 and IPAWS Profile / CAP1.2]

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

USG seldom acts at this level except through specific agency 
recommendations or Office of Management and Budget Circulars which 
dictate policy, but historically haven't been vigorously enforced. 
However, neither recommendations or policy are likely in this case. DHS 
S&T might look at it, but NIEM is the body more interested in 
namespacing issues. Their focus is less on specifying any particular 
technology than including any and all technologies that may prove to be 
useful, economical or both.

Cheers,
Rex

Tony Rutkowski wrote:
> On 12/23/2009 12:02 PM, Rex Brooks wrote:
>> Your EMTEL presumption is not quite accurate. Some communication may 
>> have taken place, but I was not aware of EMTEL. Now I am.
>>
>> We're old friends/colleagues of Elliot.
>>
>> Actually I think the cognizance is mutual, or even the larger world 
>> pinging us.
>>
>> I also work in the Net Centric Operations Industry Consortium 
>> (NCOIC), so I appreciate the introduction to the Emergency 
>> Telecommunications group (EMTEL) of the European Telecommunications 
>> Standards Institute (ETSI). I will ensure that I get familiar with 
>> this body as I have with the Open Architecture and Spatial Data 
>> Infrastructure for Risk Management (ORCHESTRA) efforts and 
>> Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe (INSPIRE) among 
>> others such as the  Global Montioring for Environment and Security 
>> (GMES) and Services and Applications for Emergency Resonse (SAFER).
>
> Excellent.  EMTEL is a good body of folks, and ETSI
> a stellar standards body.  It's work provides a lot of
> insight into emergency messaging activity in Europe
> as well as individual countries.
>
> You should be aware of the latest version of the
> emergency messaging namespace management standard.
> It's important to get this right.  We're suggesting, for
> example, that PKI certs - probably EVcerts - should be
> used for this purpose.  This standard will get finalized
> over the coming months with joint ITU-T - ISO/IEC
> interactions that include WMO and other bodies.  The
> USG should be acting here, but the agencies don't seem
> to know how to proceed or even understand the subject
> matter.  Yaana Technologies is interested in facilitating and
> working with others who might be similarly interested.
>
> best,
> tony

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