Public review for CAP-AU Profile

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

Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL) Common Alerting Protocol (CAP)

v1.2 Australia (AU) Profile Version 1.0

Committee Specification Draft 01 / Public Review Draft 01

09 December 2011

Specification Overview:

This Profile of the XML-based Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) describes an  
interpretation of the OASIS CAP v1.2 standard necessary to meet the needs of  
the Australian Government.

TC Description:

The Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL) is a broad initiative to  
create an integrated framework for a wide range of emergency data exchange  
standards to include the Common Alerting Protocol (EDXL-CAP), Distribution  
Element (EDXL-DE), Hospital AVailability Exchange (EDXL-HAVE), Resource  
Message (EDXL-RM), Reference Information Model (EDXL-RIM), Situation  
Reporting (EDXL-SitRep), and Tracking Emergency Patients (EDXL-TEP).

Public Review Period:

The public review starts 13 December 2011 and ends 20 January 2012.

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.

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/44610/cap-v1.2-au-profile-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 (EDXL) Common Alerting Protocol  
(CAP) v1.2 Australia (AU) Profile 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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