RE: [emergency] Initial Focus for the TC

Title: Message

To 
all, 

 

Rick 
is completely correct in the very real need to reuse existing standards to the 
greatest extent possible.  There are political as well as practical 
reasons. So we must document our consideration of those standards in our 
deliberations as well.

 

All I 
am saying is that we need to be sure we follow an approach something like, "Here 
are are needs.  What existing standards exist? How do we best use them 
to meet our needs?"

as 
opposed to "Here are the existing standards. How can we manipulate our needs to 
fit them?"   I am sure that we all want to follow the first 
approach.  The problem is that the second approach is very easy to fall 
into if we do not keep an appropriate focus on functional 
requirements of the Prepare, Mitigate, Respond, Recover life 
cycle. 

 

Respectfully,

 

Gary 
Ham 

  

  
-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Thursday, 
  February 13, 2003 8:49 PM
To: Ham, Gary A
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Subject: Re: [emergency] Initial 
  Focus for the TC

  
Hi Gary,

  
 

  
Thanks for the good points. Allen and I are intensely aware of the 
  cross-functional requirements of a potential EM standard and are 
  committed to insuring that ALL functional sub-sets are appropriately 
  considered. With that in mind, I remind you of our action 
  mandate to research and present leveragable XML work at all 
  levels for initial review at our next meeting. Accomplishing this as 
  an actively collaborative group will insure that the goal of 
  "covering all the bases" will, indeed, be well met.

  
 

  
Rick Carlton

  
Vice Chair - EM-TC     

  
 

  
 
-----"Ham, Gary A" 
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To: 
  
From: "Ham, Gary A" 
  <>
Date: 02/13/2003 12:02PM
Subject: [emergency] 
  Initial Focus for the TC

  
I am not sure that the minutes of our meeting do 
  justice to the point I was trying to make.  I was not asking just whether 
  fire was included.  I was suggesting that the committee must not lose 
  sight to the full Emergency Management life cycle of Prevent, Mitigate, 
  Respond and Recover across multiple disciplines (police, fire, healthcare, 
  electrical and other infrastructure, etc.) .While it is important to look at 
  various standards in place, it is just as important to look at functional 
  needs for information exchange between the multiple disciplines that make up 
  the Emergency Response Community and particularly the cross-discipline 
  exchange requirements. Many of the current standards originated in single 
  discipline information silos. Emergency response in a cross-discipline 
  environment may be able to reuse some of these standards but we must be 
  careful to recognize the full breadth of the requirements that exist, even as 
  we choose a narrower scope for initial implementation.  We need to be 
  careful that, in adopting existing standards, we do not reinforce the separate 
  silo of information approach that plagues many of our current 
  systems.

  
Gary Ham 

  
"You would be surprised what you can accomplish 
  when you do not care who gets the credit."  - Harry S. 
  Truman