Meeting Minutes 22 June 2004

The meeting convened at 12:00 p.m. EST.

Roll:
Art Botterell
Rex Brooks
Gary Ham
Tom Merkle
Carl Reed
Kon Wilms

No specific agenda was posted, due to the fact that OASIS has not yet instituted the CAP developer mailing list for us, which Rex reported was also the case with two other lists that he knows were requested in the same timeframe as this one. That was the only pending action item of note other than the ongoing tasks of building a generic presentation for CAP to be of general use by all and by OASIS, and the of building an Implementor's/Implementation Guide, which is largely tied to the developer list. However, in relation to the dev list, is the single report we had on

Old Business:

1. Art reported that the first meeting of the PPW Uniform Standards for Alerting, USA, Working Group went well and included Bill Curry and Tom Merkle. There was a good initial conversation about general start up issues such as instituting a monthly conference call. Art said that Kon Wilms had directed them to some wiki resources to help facilitate the work of the USA such as MediaWiki, which can be explored at http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki and TikiWiki which can be explored at http://tikiwiki.org/tiki-view_articles.php which are two examples of Content Management Software, CMS, which is added here so we know yet another TLA, three-letter acronym.

Art said that USA had identified four areas with which they are most concerned:
      1. How to represent data within CAP;
    2. Developing a taxonomy for hazards within CAP Event Categories;
       3. Security issues for

-sender identity authentication and authorization and trust networks, and

- physical facilities for network infrastructure such as switches, nodes, routers, sensors, etc; and
4. Transport mechanisms

Art reported that USA began with 46 initial subscribers on its mailing list.

In terms of its relationship to the EM TC and EM-Msg SC, Art said that it is expected or hoped that discussions amongst this group will be distilled into recommendations TC.

New Business:

2. Kon mentioned that he had become aware of a recent effort to start work on a NIMS Integration Center within DHS whose ACTING Director is Marco Burns. This center will take responsibility for overseeing NIMS outreach, implementation and the development of training programs to the extent of vetting and coordinating curricula.

Our point of contact with this effort, as far as we could determine is Bert Coursey of NIST, whose contact info has been forwarded to the individuals who requested it by Tom Merkle and will be posted to our mailing list if and/or when permission is received. It was noted this center is apparently to be situated within the Office of Science and Technology, OST, in DHS, and our point of contact in that office is thought to be Nancy Suskey. Tom said he would attempt to determine this.

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