Minutes 5-11-04

Minutes for OASIS Emergency Management Messaging and Notifications Meeting 11 May 2004

Meeting Convened: 12:00 p.m. Eastern

Roll:
Gary Ham
Rex Brooks
Art Botterell

Tom Merkle notified the SC that he had a conflicting meeting to attend.

Lack of quorum meant that no substantive decisions could be taken, but we received reports and discussed possible New Business Issues.

1. Old Business:

A. Report on CAP Newsletter and OASIS Press Release

Rex Brooks reported that the OASIS CAP Press Release went out last week and that the

Newsletter is due out soon, this week most likely.

B. Teleconference

It was reported that until a new source for toll-free teleconferencing is arranged we will

continue to use FreeConference.com which means that committee members will pay for

their own long-distance charges to the Las Vegas area code.

C. Informal update on TC meeting

The areas covered at the TC meeting last week were briefly discussed, mainly the errata

decisions/selections.

2. Update on Implementation Guide

A. Rex reported that he had not received any samples yet from developers. It was also discussed that

that we should get feedback and suggestions from Kon in regard to broadcast issues and Rex

reported that he is looking for examples for CAP delivered through telephone trees, and any

other means for communicating CAP messages.

3. New Business

A. We discussed the issues related to the implementation guide. Mainly it was clear that a distinction

needs to be made that CAP is a content protocol, not a transport protocol or API. One way to do

that is to have distinct sections or chapters for specific transport protocols, such as web

services using SOAP and WSDL, one-way broadcast, VXML in automated telephone trees, etc.

B. In the course of these discussions, when the topic of developing registries, similar to the work of

the GIS SC, that ComCARE is looking to build a registry and we could perhaps work with

them. Rex said that he could also suggest ways that ComCARE could use other OASIS

specifications, such as ebXML RIM, UDDI, WSS and HumanMarkup for various aspects of their

work which is actually somewhat beyond their own scope. Art said he would send Rex the email

address of David Aylward to contact in regard to these issues.

C. It was generally agreed, despite the lack of quorum, that suggesting to the overall TC that one of this

SC's next work products ought to be building a set of requirements for an Emergency

Management Registry and seek further liaisons in this efforts, starting with ComCARE

Meeting adjourned: 12:30 p.m. Eastern

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