Description
Minutes of the Emergency Management Infrastructure Framework Subcommittee of May 25th, 2010. At today's meeting, two significant topics were discussed. (1) Use of Reply-To and Err-To -- Whether DE is intended to be used primarily within a routing grid or is it intended to be used by end-users as well. - A primary use for DNDO has been within a routing grid. Both err-to and reply-to are intended for the last hop grid routing node to acknowledge receipt of the EDXL DE message and in the case where any intermediate node fails to forward on to the next level to indicate an error condition.
(2) Upcoming FCC Workshop on Emergency Alerting and Need to Represent and Explain Aspects of the Distribution Element – More education is needed so decision-makers understand that the DE helps address major issues faced when issuing public alerts, such as the liability issue faced by telcos and others, by providing nonrepudiation, and the issue of how to support needed flexibility across states and regions by supporting a policy-based routing infrastructure.
