(PR) 45-day Public Review for Emergency Data Exchange Language Situation Reporting (EDXL-SitRep) Version 1.0

[Chet Ensign <chet.ensign@oasis-open.org>]

The OASIS Emergency Management TC [1] members have recently approved a
Committee Specification Draft (CSD) and submitted this specification
for 30-day public review:

Emergency Data Exchange Language Situation Reporting (EDXL-SitRep) Version 1.0
Committee Specification Draft 01 / Public Review Draft 01
15 November 2011

Specification Overview:
This XML-based Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL) Situation
Reporting specification describes a set of standard reports and
elements that can be used for data sharing among emergency information
systems, and that provide incident information for situation awareness
on which incident command can base decisions.

TC Description:
The Emergency Management Technical Committee has recently voted for
four Committee Specification Drafts. These are for CommonTypes,
elements used consistently in multiple Emergency Data Exchange
Language (EDXL) specifications; EDXL-GSF, an EDXL Profile of the
Simple Features Profile of the Open Geospataial Consrtium's
Geographical Markup Language; EDXL-CIQ, an EDXL Profile of the OASIS
Customer Information Quality Committee Specification, and the
EDXL-Situation Reporting specification v1.0.

Public Review Period:

The public review starts 16 November 2011 and ends 31 December 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.

When providing comments, please include the line number(s) from the
PDF edition of the draft.

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/44361/edxl-sitrep-v1.0-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
Situation Reporting (EDXL-SitRep) Version 1.0, 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
http://www.oasis-open.org

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