ISO-TC223 Report 22351

Friends,

ISO 223 has submitted a draft for comment of their message structure for information exchange between emergency management organizations. It includes a packaged situation awareness component and is quite far along in their process. I appreciate that Dennis Gusty provided this to us as we may not have otherwise been made aware. The comment request says comments are due by 3/6 – tomorrow! However there is one place in the internal document that says 3/8 and Denis said we may have a little longer. The two documents are posted in the EM-TC repository in the Contributions Folder for your review.

This is a bit frustrating for me as we responded very clearly to ISO in October of 2010 that we had a work in progress (Situation Reporting) when they publicly requested information on this work item. The letter we sent was agreed to by our EM-TC as balloted 26 Oct 2010 and can be reviewed at https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/emergency/download.php/39892/ISO%20Response.doc.

I am copying Jamie Clark also who is our liaison with ISO. As I reported in my HL7 meeting report, I spent time with the ISO TC215 Secretariat Lisa Spellman as we were panellists on the Standards Panel at the meeting. She was very interested in our real-world work uniting emergency response to health care with TEP. She spent time with me later to review the EDXL standards development process. Lisa is also the US TAG Administrator. I intend to reach out to her as well regarding this report. Perhaps our letter did not get to the right people? Perhaps ignored? We have long talked about how important it is to have a representative on the ISO/TC223 but we have not had the bandwidth.

Please post any thoughts or comments as a reply to this email. After I’ve heard from you, we will determine if a special meeting is in order to discuss or whether we should respond. Hopefully we will also have guidance from OASIS as well.

Thanks,

Elysa Jones, Chair

OASIS EM-TC

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