EM-TC Submission of CAP Profile for Public Review

Dear Mary,

The EM-TC is pleased to announce that we are ready to submit the Common
Alerting Protocol USA Integrated Public Alert and Warning System Profile
Public Review 01 to OASIS for a 60-day public review period.

The 2/24/09 meeting notes from our meeting where the working draft was
advanced to a Committee Draft can be found at

http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/emergency/download.php/31436/Approved%20Meeting%20Notes%202-24-09.doc

The 2/26/09 meeting notes from our meeting where the committee draft
was advanced to a Public Review Draft can be found at

http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/emergency/download.php/31466/Draft%20Meeting%20Notes%202-26-09.doc

The Public Review Draft 01 can be found at

http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/emergency/download.php/31443/CAP-v1.1-IPAWS-Profile-PR01.doc

In addition, the TC would like to add the following notes to the
request for comments that goes out:

Note on inclusion of a schema:

The OASIS EM TC requests comments on the advisability of including a
normative XML Schema for the CAP-IPAWS Profile within the CAP IPAWS
Profile Specification. Currently no schema is included and we note that
other OASIS profiles have been completed without schemas. It should be
considered whether the purpose of the profile is better suited by:

including no schema;

enforcing restrictions such as those for the <geocode> element;
or,

limiting changes to cardinality, such as requiring that at least one
<eventCode> element be included.

Note on inclusion of FEMA IPAWS Requirements Document:

The OASIS EM TC requests comments on the inclusion of the complete
IPAWS CAP v1.1Profile Requirements v2.4 - Public document within the CAP
Profile Specification as non-normative information. Currently a reference
to the document is included as Non-Normative Reference, with an
additional note in Sec 1.6 of the Profile Specification. Comments will
help the OASIS EM TC to validate if the provision of this information
will serve to help and inform users/implementers of the CAP IPAWS
Profile.

Please let me know if you have any questions in processing this
request.  

Kind regards,

Elysa Jones, Chair

OASIS EM-TC

CTO Warning Systems, Inc.