(PR) 45-day Public Review for Emergency Data Exchange Language Situation Reporting (EDXL-SitRep) Version 1.0

The OASIS Emergency Management TC [1] members have recently approved a  
Committee Specification Draft (CSD) and submitted this specification for  
30-day public review:

Emergency Data Exchange Language Situation Reporting (EDXL-SitRep) Version  
1.0

Committee Specification Draft 01 / Public Review Draft 01

15 November 2011

Specification Overview:

This XML-based Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL) Situation Reporting  
specification describes a set of standard reports and elements that can be  
used for data sharing among emergency information systems, and that provide  
incident information for situation awareness on which incident command can  
base decisions. 

TC Description:

The Emergency Management Technical Committee has recently voted for four  
Committee Specification Drafts. These are for CommonTypes, elements used  
consistently in multiple Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL)  
specifications; EDXL-GSF, an EDXL Profile of the Simple Features Profile of  
the Open Geospataial Consrtium's Geographical Markup Language; EDXL-CIQ, an  
EDXL Profile of the OASIS Customer Information Quality Committee  
Specification, and the EDXL-Situation Reporting specification v1.0. 

Public Review Period:

The public review starts 16 November 2011 and ends 31 December 2011.

This is an open invitation to comment. OASIS solicits feedback from  
potential users, developers and others, whether OASIS members or not, for the  
sake of improving the interoperability and quality of its technical work.  

When providing comments, please include the line number(s) from the PDF  
edition of the draft.  

URIs:

The complete package of the prose specification document and related files  
are available in the ZIP distribution file at:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/44361/edxl-sitrep-v1.0-csprd01.zip

Additional information about the specification and the OASIS Emergency  
Management TC may be found at the TC's public home page:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/emergency/

Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person through the use of the  
OASIS TC Comment Facility which can be located via the button labeled "Send A  
Comment" at the top of the TC public home, or directly at:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/index.php?wg_abbrev=emergency

Comments submitted by TC non-members for this work and for other work of  
this TC are publicly archived and can be viewed at:

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/emergency-comment/

All comments submitted to OASIS are subject to the OASIS Feedback License,  
which ensures that the feedback you provide carries the same obligations at  
least as the obligations of the TC members. In connection with this public  
review of Emergency Data Exchange Language Situation Reporting (EDXL-SitRep)  
Version 1.0, we call your attention to the OASIS IPR Policy [2] applicable  
especially [3] to the work of this technical committee. All members of the TC  
should be familiar with this document, which may create obligations regarding  
the disclosure and availability of a member's patent, copyright, trademark  
and license rights that read on an approved OASIS specification. OASIS  
invites any persons who know of any such claims to disclose these if they may  
be essential to the implementation of the above specification, so that notice  
of them may be posted to the notice page for this TC's work.

========== Additional references:

[1] OASIS Emergency Management TC

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/emergency/

[2] http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php

[3] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/emergency/ipr.php

http://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/ipr#s10.2.2

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Best Regards,

/chet

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Chet Ensign

Director of Standards Development and TC Administration

OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society

http://www.oasis-open.org

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