Approved EM-TC Minutes 1/25/05 and EDXL Working Group Minutes 1/28/05

Approved minutes 1/25/05 EM-TC telecon

1.  Roll Call.

Art Botterell

Rex Brooks

David Ellis, Observer

Paul Embley

Gary Ham

Elysa Jones

Tom Merkle

Michelle Raymond

Carl Reed

Eleanor Robinson

Kon Wilms

Bob Wyman

A quorum was present.

2.  Minutes from the 1/11/05 meeting were approved as
drafted.

3.  CAP 1.1.  

        - 
Removing the name attribute from the simple type.  After discussions
on the list and calls, it was agreed to remove the name attribute from
simple type.  

        -  It
was agreed that we must allow nulls.  Art will craft words to add to
the spec.

        -  It
was agreed to clarify the wording about coordinates in the Southern and
Western hemisphere being signed negative to "Latitudes in the
Southern Hemisphere and longitudes in the Western Hemisphere are signed
negative with a leading dash."  This wording was approved for
the CAP 1.1.  Carl and the GIS SC will suggest a best practices
approach to consider for the next revision of CAP.  

        - 
There has been much discussion on the list about including some manner of
encryption in the CAP 1.1.  Art will suggest wording.

We will try to wrap up any changes for CAP 1.1 soon so that we can get
these into the formal review process by the the middle of
February.

4.  EDXL - there will be a working group call Friday 1/28 at 12:00
EST.

Meeting adjourned

The EDXL working group met via telecon 1/28/05

Those on the call were:  Rex Brooks, Art Botterell, Michelle
Raymond, Sukamar Dwarkanath, 

1.  Vocabulary.  Rex clarified what he was doing with the
vocabulary.  We discussed the status with the GJXDM and that the
tools identified were not proving helpful to get the definitions mapped
to existing CAP vocabulary.  Rex and the Msg SC will take this on
and parse out the pieces to be done in a spread sheet - brute
force.  It was noted that Tom had already started this and several
folks had volunteered to help.

2.  EDXL Spec.  It was agreed to take the Routing Block piece
of EDXL as modified during the last call and put it in specification
format.  It will be one several documents.  The others will be
the EDXL General Functional Requirements, EDXL Standard Message Format,
Types of Hazards and/or Events, Types of Agencies, and Types of Response
Activity.  I will put these into spec format for TC 
review.

3.  CAP 1.1.  We also discussed what the time line would be for
CAP 1.1.  We actually have until mid Feb before the review period
gets extended.  We would like to get CAP 1.1 into review before
then.  We would like to include the Digital Signature Proposal that
has been suggested and circulated on the list.  If some good
proposal comes forth for the list for the extensibility in the resource
block, we may be able to review that as well.  Please provide any
comments on the topics being circulated on the list.  I will try to
have the 1.1 in format and posted by 2/5/05.  We could vote during
the next TC meeting to adopt it as a committee draft 2/8/05.

Meeting adjourned.

Respectfully submitted,

Elysa Jones, Chair

EM-TC