Coordinating%20the%20Development%20and%20Adoption%20of%20Emergency%20Data%20Standards%20With%20The%20Ongoing%20Development%20of%20NIEM

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Coordinating the Development and Adoption of
Emergency Data Standards With The Ongoing
Development of NIEM

• Status and Questions

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Panel Members

• Panel Members
• Donna Roy Director, DHS Enterprise Data
  Management Office, NIEM Executive Director
• Denis Gusty Deputy Director, DHS Office for
  Interoperability and Compatibility, Lead for DHS
  data Interoperability. Co-lead NIEM Emergency
  Management Domain
• Scott Shoup IT Specialist for FEMA Enterprise
  Architecture, Co-lead NIEM Emergency Management
  Domain
• Tim Grapes VP, Evolution Technologies, NIEM EM
  Domain Support, OASIS EM TC Voting Member
• Gary Ham (Moderator) System Architect, FEMA
  Disaster Management Program, OASIS EM TC Founding
  member

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Schedule

• Panel members will be asked to speak in turn on
  their evaluation of the current state of
  coordination and four more direct questions that
  might be asked by system architects and actual
  developers.
• Two minutes per panel member per question.
• Rotating first answer by different panel
  members for each question.
• We are staying on time give the audience time for
  questions.

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Coordination Status To Date

• Coordination has begun between the NIEM EM Domain
  and the requirements development process used for
  EDXL. What is your take on this process so far?
• Comments by the panel
• Donna
• Denis
• Scott
• Tim

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Developer Questions (1)

• Grant language says NIEM, or EDXL (sometimes just
  CAP), or some other external standard (like
  IEEE1512). What do I do? How do I choose?
• Comments by the panel
• Denis
• Scott
• Tim
• Donna

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Developer Questions (2)

• If I want to use the IEPD approach to document my
  exchange, do I have to redefine elements drawn
  from a currently approved EDXL Standard as fully
  NIEM compliant elements? In other words, is EDXL
  considered NIEM conformant, or not?
• Comments by the panel
• Scott
• Tim
• Donna
• Denis

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Developer Questions (3)

• Should we bring concepts that exist in other
  standards into NIEM? How do we do that for EDXL?
  Do we use the same approach for other Standards
  (like IEEE1512)?
• Comments by the panel
• Tim
• Donna
• Denis
• Scott

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Developer Questions (4)

• Considering these issues, how do we manage the
  governance process?
• Loose coupling with a standard process for
  reusing external standards in NIEM conformant
  IEPDs (as currently defined in the NDR)?
• An integrated process with a cross-dependent
  development schedule and combined governance
  structure?
• Or something in between?
• Comments by the panel
• Donna
• Denis
• Scott
• Tim

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Audience Questions

• 15 Minutes for Audience Questions