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Subject: Re: [emergency] NewsBriefs, articles, notes for publicationrelease in jlocationservices
Thanks, Allen, Neil has contributed another ppt on "The Roads to NIMS" which, with the one I did gives a more complete picture of how DMIS fits into the scheme of things, as one channel for distributing CAP messages. I wish I could have gotten all this into publication, but as I said, regardless of the outcome of the vote, we now have some materials ready for the support operation whether we are encouraging adoption or supporting a resubmission, or whatever actually comes about. It's nice to know we would have made it, if the editor wasn't out this week. Ciao, Rex At 4:33 PM -0500 3/29/04, R. Allen Wyke wrote: >Both of these look great! > >As a side note, in reference to Eliot's article, he does an >excellent job of putting a, for lack of a better phrase, "marketing >spin" on CAP without getting into the technical details. Have said >such, however, evolving other documentation/materials/etc., such as >the planned Implementer's Guide to support those statements, while >not required, would go a long way to validate "how" to apply CAP in >these situations. > >Allen > >On Mar 28, 2004, at 3:06 PM, Rex Brooks wrote: > >>Hi Folks, >> >>While I can't yet guarantee that my contact, Christopher Lakey, >>will be able to get a special issue of the jlocations newsletter on >>CAP out by Monday afternoon-evening, I have not received the word >>to just let it slide, so I am going to supply herein the one thing >>I am writing, a newsbrief-report on the "Interoperability Now!" >>event March 11, along with an attached article included in a post >>from Eliot Christian recently, and a few notes about what I have >>put together so far. I have asked Eliot for permission to republish >>the article, and won't use without that permission. I doubt I would >>have time to paraphrase and then attribute my paraphrasing, and I >>certainly don't have time to build my own article at this time. >> >>I am also explaining what else I am trying to include. >> >>I will use our Fact Sheet with a brief introduction for the main >>feature. It is fairly short and easy to grasp. >> >>This Introduction contains a reference and link to the Cover Pages >>article on CAP which is very informative and authoritative. I will >>repeat that in the set of links for for the issue to sources and >>references. >> >>I have a url for the notice about CAP in the recently published >>CapWIN newsletter, which will be included in the set of links for >>the issue to sources and references. >> >>I have sent a message to DMIS asking for permission to excerpt from >>their presentation to this TC last May 21, 2003. slides 5, 6, 7, 8, >>9, 10, 20 with a very brief description of DMIS and what an >>interoperability service is. >> >>If I were to receive the other reports, I would happy to include them. >> >>Here is my very brief report on Interoperability Now! >> >>Interoperability Now! >> by Rex Brooks, co-chair, OASIS EM (Emergency Management) Messages >>and Notification Subcommittee (SC) >> >>Much of the following report is excerpted from a recent message by >>Art Botterell, co-chair, OASIS EM Messages and Notification SC, to >>the mailing list he maintains for the working group which began the >>work of developing The Common Alerting Protocol, CAP, which was >>subsequently brought under the aegis of the OASIS Emergency >>Management Technical Committee. The Interoperability Now! event, >>held March 11, 2004, which included a demonstration of CAP >>interoperability, was organized by Congressmember Carl Weldon >>following a similar demonstration during the Global Homeland >>Security Conference held in Washington D.C. September 24-26, 2003. >> >>The Interoperability Now! event highlights the current context of >>CAP. The Emergency Management Technical Committee of the >>international Organization for the Advancement of Structured >>Information Standards (OASIS) has voted to approve The CAP 1.0 >>Committee Draft for submission as a standard to OASIS. It's >>currently being voted upon by the OASIS member organizations. >> >> Recently, the ComCARE Alliance and the Emergency Interoperability >>Consortium took CAP to Capitol Hill on March 11th, 2004. As part >>of a program called "Interoperability Now!" an operating network of >>CAP-based applications were shown to legislators, staff and agency >>representatives in the Rayburn House Office Building. Participants >>in the CAP demo included the DHS DMIS (Disaster Management >>Interoperability Services) program, MyStateUSA, Warning Systems >>Inc., the Contra Costa County (CA) Community Warning System and >>mobileFoundations, Inc. >> >> According to Art Botterell, a member of the OASIS Emergency >>Management Technical Committee and a participant in Partnership for >>Public Warning, attended the event and reported that David Aylward >>of ComCARE described it as "CAP's debutante ball, saying, " It did >>feel a bit like that, actually." >> >>Art reported that "the technology demonstration also featured the >>"E-Safety Network" and the "Emergency Provider Access Directory" >>projects being spearheaded by ComCARE members ... systems for >>geospatial imaging and radio/telephone interconnection ... It was >>preceded by a series of panel sessions covering various aspects of >>standards-based interoperable communication. ..." >> >> Among the notable news that Art collected was the item that, "Pete >>O'Dell of the Oregon RAINS project dropped by the demo event to >>mention that they've now processed over 87,000 CAP messages in >>their system. ..." and "... Elsewhere, the California Office of >>Emergency Services has issued a contract to update its Emergency >>Digital Information Service system to more fully integrate CAP. >> >> Art also reports to his list that "... we've been contacted by a >>research team in Western Australia who're putting together a >>CAP-based integrated warning methodology demo Down Under. >> >> Art noted in closing his message, "...we're bringing CAP from >>concept to reality, faster than expected but not sooner than we >>need it . ..." >> >>Gary Ham, of DMIS, and an OASIS Emergency Management Technical >>Committee member, also attended the event as a participant in the >>demonstration which consisted of two demonstration networks, the >>DMIS transport system which provides a CAP API which can be used >>via SOAP in a web services-based implementation for sending and >>receiving CAP alert messages, and the ComCARE E-Safety EMERGENCY >>PROVIDER ACCESS DIRECTORY (EPAD), which can receive CAP alert >>messages through an intelligent message broker service. Gary >>reported that the event was well-attended. >> >> Included in the demonstration was a mobile computer backpack which >>points toward one of the next challenges to interoperability of >>emegency response capabilities, sending and receiving updates from >>rapidly evolving emergency sites. Thus, future considerations were >>included within the overall theme of the "Interoperability Now!" >>event. >> >>Well, that's what there is of it at this particular moment in time. >>I would love to say that it might expand before I could report it >>back to y'all, but I can't. >> >>If you see showstoppers in here somewhere, it would be best to let >>me know. I plan to to send it off this evening. >> >>Ciao, >>Rex >>-- >>Rex Brooks >> GeoAddress: 1361-A Addison, Berkeley, CA, 94702 USA, Earth >> W3Address: http://www.starbourne.com >> Email: rexb@starbourne.com >>Tel: 510-849-2309 >>Fax: By Request >><Alerting.doc>To unsubscribe from this mailing list (and be removed >>from the roster of the OASIS TC), go to >>http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/emergency/members/leave_workgroup.php. >-- >R. Allen Wyke >Chief Technology Officer >awyke@blue292.com >919.806.2440 -- Rex Brooks GeoAddress: 1361-A Addison, Berkeley, CA, 94702 USA, Earth W3Address: http://www.starbourne.com Email: rexb@starbourne.com Tel: 510-849-2309 Fax: By Request
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