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 recently approved 
the following specification as a Public Review Draft:

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

The public review starts today, 29 August 2005 and ends 
28 October 2005.

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. 
Please feel free to forward this message to other appropriate 
lists and/or post this information on your organization's web 
site. 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 at:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/form.php?wg_abbrev=emergency

Submitted comments (for this work as well as other works of 
the Emergency Management TC) are publicly archived and can be viewed at http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/emergency-comment/.
 
A summary and the file location follow below. 

Mary P McRae
Manager of TC Administration, OASIS
mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org  


Summary
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This Distribution Element specification describes a standard 
message distribution framework for data sharing among emergency 
information systems using the XML-based Emergency Data Exchange 
Language (EDXL). This format may be used over any data 
transmission system, including but not limited to the SOAP HTTP 
binding. The primary purpose of the Distribution Element is 
to facilitate the routing of any properly formatted XML emergency 
message to recipients. The Distribution Element may be thought 
of as a "container". It provides the information to route 
"payload" message sets (such as Alerts or Resource Messages), 
by including key routing information such as distribution type, 
geography, incident, and sender/recipient ID's.


Files
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The file is available here:

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

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/14163/EDXL_DE_Spec_v1.0.html