Re: [emergency] EDXL/CAP Survey

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Hi Len,

CAP is now included in GJXDM, so RFPs contingent on the GJXDM are 
also axiomatically contingent on CAP compliance within GJXDM, if 
required.

DHS will likely stipulate CAP in its applicable RFPs. the Public 
Forum for the Data Reference Model yesterday included CAP because it 
was part of the pilot we (Starbourne) will be doing for the Semantic 
Interoperability Architecture effort for September. I will keep this 
group apprised of that work as it proceeds.

EDXL is likely to be a key piece of NIMS as it gets built out. We are 
hammering on the Distribution Element again today.

Ciao,
Rex

At 8:39 AM -0500 6/14/05, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
>Something to chew on.   This week I received
>a COMCARE survey for information on EDXL/CAP
>implementations, customers, populations served, etc.
>I have to reply that as of this time, we have
>no information about that to be released.
>
>As mentioned previously, public safety is an
>RFP-driven business.   Requirements that don't
>show up in at least three separate RFPs aren't
>likely to be implemented soon if ever.  How
>is this group and its supporters in government
>working to see to it that these specifications
>and standards are introduced commercially to
>the public safety industry through procurement
>processes?
>
>Are there papers that explicitly illustrate where
>these standards fit into the product mix that an
>agency would be acquiring when purchasing say
>Dispatch, police, fire and EMT records systems?
>
>Who declares a situation that would result in
>an EDXL/CAP message being broadcast?  Who receives
>it and under what jurisdiction?
>
>We've discussed some of these topics briefly in the
>past, but I think that before we will see these
>standards in more than one or two very large
>procurements, the procurement officials need help
>with the requirements language.  I see mentions of
>GJXDM but little of EDXL/CAP.
>
>len
>
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