Approved Notes from the Emergency Management Technical Committee (EM-TC) Meeting

Approved notes from the Emergency Management Technical Committee (EM-TC) Meeting Date: December 15, 2016 Cancelled Meeting scheduled for December 27, 2016 Next meeting: January 10, 2016 1. Attendance Members Elysa Jones Rex Brooks Tim Grapes Karen Legrand Gary Ham

A quorum was in attendance.

2. Meeting notes. Meeting notes for November 15, 2016 were approved as amended. 3. Updates a. Elysa noted that Karen Legrand is now a voting member of the EM TC. b. Elysa said our funding for the Member Section is low this year and reviewed some items. c. Elysa asked Karen Legrand if she could or would attend the January HL7 Working Group Meeting and Karen said it was still undecided, but unlikely. This may be the HL7 meeting for which our participation isn’t funded by the Member Section. d. Elysa said the next HL7 meeting is in May and we should be better prepared to attend that one. e. Elysa said that the next EIC meeting is tomorrow from 2 pm to 4 pm Eastern Time. She said that the agenda has been posted and she noted the presenters and she encouraged us to attend so that we can monitor the plans of the National Weather Service with regard to their CAP practices and membership in OASIS. f. Rex said he is working with folks from the Strategy Markup Language (StratML) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy_Markup_Language to promote the EDXL suite of standards and specifications. He is hoping to have the first drafts of strategic plans in January. g. Elysa said the NFPA 1616 standard’s annex will include the EDXL family of standards and will continue work on that after the first of the year. h. Elysa noted that on the last CAP call the event list topic was brought up along with other topics, specifically a best practices guide for CAP cell broadcast which is a technology that is often considered for CAP in developing countries which don’t have a large telecom infrastructure—and she noted that we need to work with carriers and the country agencies responsible for licensing the telecom spectrum. Elysa also noted that the NWS is considering changes to the way that the CAP schema is being used. Rex and Gary discussed aspect of that discussion and Elysa said members should refer to the meeting notes for details.

4. Subcommittee (SC) Reports. a. EDXL Common Alerting Protocol (CAP). Rex noted that the SC has a meeting this Friday and invited anyone interested to attend.

b. EDXL Hospital Availability Exchange (HAVE). There was no report. We’re going to try to get a fresh start in the new year. We would like to have it moving or completed by the time of the May HL7 meeting

c. EDXL Reference Information Model (RIM). Rex reported that with the first complete Enterprise Architect model of the EDXL suite of standards/specifications we can use that to help with the StratML effort.

5. Emergency Adoption TC. Rex invited anyone interested to join up and participate in the coming work leveraging the RIM to make EDXL more attractive to developers.

6. Adjourn. With our business complete, Rex made and Gary seconded a motion to adjourn. All agreed.

Respectfully submitted,

Rex Brooks, Secretary, OASIS EM TC Emergency Management Technical Committee