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Subject: Re: [emergency] IFSC was: RE: [emergency-msg] Any word from Jamie? Notes.
Thanks, Art, It helps to be able to start getting more specific. Ciao, Rex At 9:33 PM -0700 8/16/04, Art Botterell wrote: >If the TC as a whole finds some version of the "Emergency Data >Exchange Language" framework acceptable, that might suggest several >specific things the IF SC could take on within layers three and four >of that model. For example... documenting and formalizing the >several established mechanisms for moving CAP and other XML messages >around... reviewing the "wrapper" format that will be coming in soon >from the FEMA/EIC work... and developing a specific strategy for >identity management and access control. (There are also various >registry-related ideas pending, but those seem to be more about >implementation than about standard development.) > >By the same token, I expect that FEMA/EIC will be proposing a set of >messages and an underlying vocabulary (drawing from the GJXDM and >various other sources) over the next several months for the >Messaging group to work over. Plus of course there may be both >near-term ("1.1") CAP issues and a longer-term ("2.0") integration >of CAP into a larger EDXL framework. > >And the GIS team might want to look into how some data models being >developed for NGA's "Project Homeland" might be integrated with our >eventing / messaging model, and vice versa. (Their current working >draft is available for download in a ZIP file from ><http://downloads.esri.com/support/datamodels/Local >Government/HomelandSecurityModel.zip>.) > >I do think we may want to consider whether our current subcommittee >structure is optimal, but it looks like we could make it work if we >choose to preserve it. > >The key to all this, I like to think, is that due in large part to >our success with CAP we now have active input from FEMA (and through >it, from all of DHS) and from the EIC to guide us on those >user-requirements and business-process questions that have held us >up in the past. > >- Art > > >At 6:21 PM -0700 8/16/04, Kon Wilms wrote: >>Just to add, >> >>Maybe we also should discuss exactly what if anything the IFSC is going >>to accomplish in the near-term future. Up until this point it has >>largely been a do-nothing group (not by intentions, but by >>non-execution). I think it is prime time to give it a good kick in the >>ass and get some direction or abandon it altogether. >> >>My concern is that the longer it continues to produce nothing, the more >>obvious it will become that it is simply another black-hole standards >>group that cannot be relied upon to deliver any goods. >> >>Cheers >>Kon >> >> >>*********************************************************************************** >>Information contained in this email message is intended only for >>use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this >>message is not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent >>responsible to deliver it to the intended recipient, you are hereby >>notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this >>communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this >>communication in error, please immediately notify the >>postmaster@nds.com and destroy the original message. >>*********************************************************************************** >> >>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. > > >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. -- 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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