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(PR) 15-day Public Review for CAP-AU Profile

The OASIS Emergency Management TC [1] members have produced an updated Committee Specification Draft (CSD) and submitted this specification for 15-day public review:

Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL) Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) v1.2 Australia (AU) Profile Version 1.0
Committee Specification Draft 03 / Public Review Draft 03
16 March 2012

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 20 March 2012 and ends 4 April 2012. The specification was previously submitted for public review on 5 March 2012 [2]. This 15-day review is limited in scope to changes made from the previous review. Changes are highlighted in the diff-marked PDF file included in the ZIP file package.

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/45486/edxl-cap-v1.2-au-profile-v1.0-csprd03.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 [3] applicable especially [4] 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] Previous public reviews:
15-day public review, 5 March 2012: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201203/msg00000.html
30-day public review, 13 December 2011: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201112/msg00005.html

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

[4] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/emergency/ipr.php
http://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/ipr#s10.2.2
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