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Subject: Revised Draft Text for Emergency Interoperability Summit Announcement -- for review
Hello Everyone – below is the latest version
of our fall event announcement. Please review and forward comments, as well as
send around to potential members of the audience. Kind regards, Jane Emergency Interoperability “Coordinating Response through Open
Standards” 29 & 30 September 2009 This fall, OASIS will be launching the FIRST ANNUAL “Emergency Interoperability
Summit”. This event, hosted at the (TBA facility), will take place on the
29 & 30 of September 2009. The At this event, industry experts will demonstrate that there
is much to be gained from their interoperability, not only in terms of cost and
operational effectiveness for the EM community, but also in terms of
marketability and access to a broader market for tool developers. To achieve
mutual connectivity, tools must adhere to agreed upon rules about protocols and
data formats, with clearly defined semantics. To facilitate wide scale
interoperability, such rules must be defined by independent bodies and must be
accessible publicly as open standards. Highlighted will be the work being done by OASIS, as part of
a coherent framework for EM interoperability in an effort to incite members
from the world wide EM community, industry, institutions and government
agencies to join our on-going standardization efforts. This work
includes: l
the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP),
an Open Standard for Alert and Warning Messages in any medium; l
the Emergency Data Exchange Language
(EDXL) Family, a set of Open Standards for Emergency IT that provides an
workable interoperability framework through: a
Distribution Element (EDXL-DE) Specification that makes packaging and
distributing any kind of Digital Emergency Communication Payload or set of
payloads possible in a uniform way; a Resource
Messaging (EDXL-RM) Specification that provides the means for a uniform method
of arranging and accounting for logistical operations that allows responders to
do their jobs while the resources are managed as automatically as possible; a Hospital
AVailability Exchange (EDXL-HAVE) Specification that provides the means for a
uniform method of reporting a snapshot of available healthcare facilities,
equipment and personnel during emergencies; and, work is
underway on a Situation Reporting (EDXL-SitRep) Specification that will provide
the means for a uniform method of reporting critical information for EM
decision making in the most timely way. It's an exciting time to join a new
kind of movement and community dedicated to continuously improving Emergency
Management throughout the entire lifecycle of emergency incidents: l from
planning and preparations through l response
operations and l remediation
operations to l after action
analysis and evaluation leading to a new cycle of l improved
planning and preparations and so on. It's a great time to join the
community and start making a difference. OASIS and the Emergency
Management Member Section invites all levels of government organizations
internationally, along with emergency managers and those from the vendor
community to join us this fall at our FIRST
ANNUAL Draft Audience List
– by job title… * national and international
government officials * policy maker and legislators * disaster planning and preparedness
managers * policy maker and legislators * non-profit associations supporting emergency &
standard activities Any others? ****Congressional staffers and
federal officials with a role in homeland security and emergency management Government agencies & other standard
bodies to involve… NOAA ITU IETF W3C IETF Others? |
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