Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards Emergency Management Technical Committee Elysa Jones, Chair [e-mail]

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Organization for the Advancement of Structured
Information StandardsEmergency Management
Technical CommitteeElysa Jones,
Chairejones_at_warningsystems.com
www.oasis-open.org
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Emergency Management Technical Committee EM-TC

• Charter
• The Technical Committee will apply itself to
  answering requirements for data exchange among
  emergency management, public safety, homeland
  security and related applications and systems.
• Subcommittee Structure
• GIS
• Infrastructure
• Messaging and Notification
• Reference Information Model
• CAP Profile

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History of EM Standards

• Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) 1.0 ratified 2004
• CAP 1.1 ratified 2005
• CAP 1.1 Errata ratified 2006
• ITU Recommendation 1303 approved 2007
• Emergency Data eXchange Language (EDXL)
  Distribution Element (DE) ratified 2006
• EDXL Resource Messaging (RM) ratified 2008
• EDXL Hospital Availability (HAVE) ratified 2008

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EDXLDistribution Element (DE)

• Overview
• Open Container Model
• Provide flexible mechanisms to inform message
  routing and/or processing decisions
• Dissemination of messages based on geographic
  delivery area
• Use and re-use of data content and models
  developed by other initiatives
• Business process-driven specific messaging needs
  across emergency professions
• Supporting everyday events and incident
  preparedness, as well as disasters
• Facilitate emergency information sharing and data
  exchange
• Multi-use format
• Introduced to the EM-TC November 2004
• Two public reviews completed
• 60-Day August 29 - October 28, 2005
• 15-Day February 17 - March 4, 2006
• Ratified May, 2006

To/from whom and under what circumstances you
send/receive data
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EDXL Distribution Element DOM
ltdistributiongt
lttargetAreagt
0
ltcontentObjectgt
0
1
OR
ltnonXMLContentgt
ltxmlContentgt
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More on the DE

• Envelope and post office analogy
• Routing of all types of data
• Policy oriented routers
• Adoption is beginning to pick up
• Necessary for RM, HAVE, likely SitRep also

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Next Steps for DE

• Focus of the EI Member Section
• New documentation
• New Adoption TC

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Next Steps for the EM-TC

• CAP 1.2 60 public review
• CAP 1.1 IPAWS Profile - comment resolution
• RIM valueList URN, CAP Identifier
• Situation Reporting
• DE 1.1 requirements
• CAP 2.0 update