OASIS Symposium _ SOA for E-Government Update - Next Meeting

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Hi Everyone,

I wanted to apologize to everyone for being so tardy in updating you 
all on the recent events of the OASIS Symposium, May 9-12 and the SOA 
for E-Government Conference May 23-24. That certainly explains why I 
was busy, but it doesn't excuse me for neglecting to inform you all 
of the results.

So, let's remediate that.

OASIS Symposium:

I gave a brief overview of our efforts to date in the lightning 
rounds, and spoke to Mary McRae about our situation, to let her know 
that I have indeed produced a first draft of the revisions to the 
primary base schemata and that I plan to arrange our next meeting. I 
had planned to call it for today, but that would not have allowed me 
sufficient time to absorb the developments of the Symposium and the 
E-Gov Conference, considering I had presentations at both events.

I think that the need for identity management both in the fields of 
web service security and healthcare, for reliable and portable 
patient identity, as well as in applications for emergency alerting 
based on the newly approved Emergency Data Exchange Language 
Disribution Element (EDXL_DE) provide us with an opportunity to focus 
on the needs for comprehensive human identity management services 
across the entire spectrum of social services and relationships from 
residential to postal to employment to healthcare to financial, 
educational and legal circumstances.

The question of how we approach what has been in front of us all this 
time in a logical and productive manner, quite apart from our 
previously mandated wrap-up of our deliverables as TC on the verge of 
shutdown, is one I think we need to discuss. I think that perhaps our 
original charter and the more recent revision needs to be revisited 
and perhaps the issue of human identity management could be the basis 
for a joint committee with security committees and the new Biometric 
Identity Assurance Services TC. The idea is still that pulling 
together the many standards related to individual human information 
is a necessity that no other one single TC or organization for that 
matter, genuinely covers, and neither do we, but the need is there.

I would also like to say that the news from the International Health 
Continuum may also enhance our position with regard to attracting new 
interest. I will write more on this soon.

Additionally, the Emergency Management TC was invited to promote the 
Common Alerting Protocol at a joint OASIS-ITU event in Geneva in 
October, and this highlights the importance once again of identity 
management that is critical in both getting alerts to people and in 
verifying identity under difficult circummstances.

SOA for E-Government Conference:

The pilot group I work with had a very successful presentation, but a 
small audience for this conference. However, since this group is 
focused on emergency alerting and health services, both domains 
relate to our focus on individual human information, and the web 
services registry we are building could also provide a model for 
storage of individual information at some point in the future.

I will also be suggesting a possible pilot program for emergency 
alerting for low-income, disabled or special-needs clientele who need 
extra consideration in emergency alerting, such as audio or video 
based systems for hearing and vision-impaired residents and/or 
workers. I think a scenario that combines both building sensors with 
evacuation of some areas and shelter-in-place for other areas and 
that occurs in an urban setting with both residential and office 
buildings involved might be suitable.

I will set up a meeting for the fourth Wednesday of June, and announce it soon.

Regards,
Rex
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Rex Brooks
President, CEO
Starbourne Communications Design
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