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Subject: RE: [emergency-adoption] Groups - Initial Adoption sub-committeeCharter v2 (EM Adoption TC Charter-DRAFT-20090119v2.docx) modified
Hi Patrick, Tom, I can answer to an extent since some of these were suggestions I made and Tom, Elysa and I discussed. It might be better to clarify the first bullet you referred to so it would read something like this: Work with the Emergency Interoperability (EI) Member Section (and EIC?) to develop a library of Documents, Webcasts Webinars, And Demos about the value, implementation and best practices of long-term, persistent, Emergency Management Standards. My intent was to create a close collaboration with the EI Member Section, to which we might add the EIC, now that I think about it. I wasn't referring to other Member Sections, though it might be wise to look at what other Member Sections have done. Now that I think about it, I would like to see this TC develop and expand relations with vendors AND, if possible, to start an educational campaign aimed at local EM agencies at the city and county level. In the second bullet you refer to, I thought of support as developing a set of protocols, perhaps working with DHS and NIST (Commerce) for conducting regular, low-level (city-county level perhaps looking for ways to help cities and counties to qualify for UASI and SUASI program funding) training exercises using CAP and EDXL Standards. NIMS Support Center is already tasked with certification responsibilities, and we can support that without having to dedicate a lot of energy to it. For myself, I wasn't referring to certification testing. The testing I would like to see is the use of modeling and simulation, so my use of the term testing means regular testing to develop drills that trainEM agencies communications centers and first responders to use new standards, hopefully written into the software that supports their communications systems (beyond mere P-25 radios per se). This means exercise testing at regular, much more frequent intervals than "once-a-year grand showcases." I think Tom can attest that such a program is needed in order to make adoption of standards a seamless process. All local police and fire agencies conduct training exercises and use some kind of training academies. We can work with those systems in initial pilot programs. We also need to work with whomever in the federal government can push an educational program using University and advanced credit High School students to develop the local documentation and publication of organization charts for EM-Public Safety agencies which we need to drive the broad uptake of EDXL-DE, and the rest of the EDXL family. The administration's education and stimulus efforts could both be leveraged such that students could pay their tuition and books with such work. (I'm quoting an associate here, since I was too dense to think of this myself :-D ) I think that once vendors see this as an opportunity to sell their newly standard-reinforced products into these existing systems, they will get vitally interested. They will also need to hire new software engineers, so we can pitch this an effective stimulus program. Cheers, Rex At 1:09 AM -0500 1/29/09, Patrick Gannon wrote: >Tom, > >Thank you for posting the v2 of the draft charter for an EM Adoption >TC. Following are some questions and comments I have. > >In the section, 3. Scope > >The added bullet is confusing to me: >" * Work with interoperability member sections to work with long >term persistent, standards, best practices and other documentation >of other TC committees" > >Is the idea to work with other TCs in the OASIS Emergency >Interoperability Member Section, or something else? Also, the rest >of that item is a little unwieldy grammatically. > > >What is meant by "support" in this added bullet? > >" * Support active testing and certification for conformance and >reliability by members of the TC in the geographical areas that they >serve" > >Does this open the EM Adoption TC up to conducting certification >programs or endorsing results of conformance testing conducted by >organizations who are not affiliated with OASIS? > > >Best regards, > >Patrick Gannon >President & COO >Warning Systems, Inc. >+1 256 880 8702 x104 (office) >+1 256 468 4055 (mobile) >+1 978 458 7478 (home-office) > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: tferrentino@mystateusa.com [mailto:tferrentino@mystateusa.com] >> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 3:01 PM >> To: emergency-adoption@lists.oasis-open.org >> Subject: [emergency-adoption] Groups - Initial Adoption sub-committee >> Charter v2 (EM Adoption TC Charter-DRAFT-20090119v2.docx) modified >> >> Agenda for next meeting (Friday, February 6 2009): >> >> 1. Review any comments regarding the Charter >> >> 2. Vote on accepting the Charter by the Adoption SC >> >> 3. Sending the Charter to the TC for review >> -- Mr. Thomas Ferrentino >> >> Information about the document named Initial Adoption sub-committee >> Charter >> v2 (EM Adoption TC Charter-DRAFT-20090119v2.docx) has been modified by >> Mr. >> Thomas Ferrentino. >> >> Document Description: >> Proposed Adoption Technical Committee Charter. This was revised during >> the >> Friday January 23, 2008 SC meeting. Please review and return any >> comments >> and recommendations you may have. >> >> View Document Details: >> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/document.php?document_id=30947 >> >> Download Document: >> http://www.oasis- >> open.org/committees/download.php/30947/EM%20Adoption%20TC%20Charter- >> DRAFT-20090119v2.docx >> >> >> PLEASE NOTE: If the above links do not work for you, your email >> application >> may be breaking the link into two pieces. 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