Minutes of the 12/28 EM-TC Telecon

In cleaning up some old emails, I found these minutes had not been posted
- so here they are.  Keep in mind these are dated. Elysa

Minutes from the 12/28/04 EM-TC Telecon are presented below. 

1.  Roll Call.  Present on the call were:

        Patti
Aymond

        Art
Botterell

        Rex
Brooks

        Sukumar
Dwarkanath

        Gary
Ham

        Elysa
Jones

        Tom
Merkle

        Michelle
Raymond

        Carl
Reed

2.  Minutes from the 12/14/04 meeting.  Add Tom Merkle to the
attendees.

3.  Reminder - Face to face in New Orleans during OASIS Conference
April 27-29.  

4.  EDXL work

        Vocabularies
- Rex reported that he is working on a tool to test vocabularies. 
Tom is doing the GJXDD to CAP mapping brute force on a spread
sheet.  He will send Rex what he has to try out the tool.  Tom
will continue working through it.  Several folks offered to help out
if he would break it up in chunks.  This will be done depending on
how the tool works out.

        CAP
Transport Profiles - Art sent out an Application Note identifying each of
the transports to be profiled with a summary of each.  Details will
be in an Appendix.  For the CAP over SOAP/HTTP Server Transport -
Gary Ham agreed to help with the Appendix.  For the CAP over XMPP
Transport (Jabber) The Jabber Council has granted permission to reproduce
their specification in the Appendix.  Art will be writing the
Appendix for the simple HTTP transport.  Art will also be writing
the Multicast/Datacast Transport piece.  It may be the end of Jan
before that can be released.

        EDXL
Distribution Header - We worked out a mission statement as follows: 
The purpose of the EDXL distribution header is to enable content based
routing of emergency management and public safety related messages
according to a characterization schema. Gary has updated the schema
he posted earlier.  It still needs work but is improved.  All
agreed to review the requirements as handed down from the EIC again in
light of our discussions to date and the mission statement as well as the
summary observations that are now posted on the site.

5.  Subcommittee reports

        Infrastructure
- There was discussion about the warning issues related to the
tsunamis.  It is critical that better sharing of information be done
to minimize the effects of this type of disaster.  The information
that the earthquake happened was immediately available.  Even
without wave detection systems in the ocean, there could have been some
warning to the coastal areas.  Art agreed to copy the TC on the note
he sent to the PPW and IAEM communities with thoughts that we need to be
cautions that another stovepipe system for tsunami detection come out of
this.  But rather a better coordinated use of existing detection and
warning systems - whatever they may be.  Of course, CAP is a great
way to make that data available to the existing alert and notification
systems.  Rex will follow up with OASIS folks to be sure we get this
message out.

        GIS -
Subcommittee remains active - next telecon 1/4/05.  

        Messaging
- Art has posted a red line CAP 1.1 spec.  The SC should complete
its work with this revision 1/4/05 and hand off to the TC for
review.  We are planning to get this in the comment period early in
January and prepare for a 1st quarter vote.  There needs to be three
CAP users to validate the changes.  The changes are summarized in
the back of the document.  

6.  EM-TC Charter.  Elysa will incorporate the changes to
section 5 of the charter along with the other agreed to changes and
post.  There will be a ballot vote via KAVI posted this week.

7.  Adjourn

Respectfully submitted,

Elysa Jones

Chair TM-TC