2 October 2007 Improving Rapid Emergency First Response with SOA 4 th SOA for E-Government Conference 1 Improving Rapid Emergency Response Systems with Integrated Web Service Architecture: Semantic Interoperability, Service Orientation & Event Driven Architectures

2 October 2007 Improving Rapid Emergency First Response with SOA 4 th SOA for E-Government Conference 2 Conclusions & Challenges EGov REQUIRES Open Standards  OMB Mandates Adoption of Voluntary Consensus Standards  Standards MUST Meet Use-Case-based Requirements SOA for EGov MUST be Practical  Standards for Intra-Agency/Dept., Inter-Agency/Dept. & Inter-Jurisdiction Needed  Standards SHOULD Provide Conformance Criteria & Testing if Possible  Results SHOULD be Measurable  Regular Pulse Checks & Satisfaction Surveys Needed SOA for EGov SHOULD Develop Culture of Continuous Improvement—Steady, Consistent, Dependable Event-Driven Architecture Necessary for Emergency Response Systems  MUST be Designed with Specific Message Exchange Patterns

2 October 2007 Improving Rapid Emergency First Response with SOA 4 th SOA for E-Government Conference 3 Collaboratory Begins with “SWANS” Conference – 7-8 April 2005 Handful of Companies Loosely Organized by SOAP-Based Web Services. Verizon Backbone from Municipal to State to Federal Jurisdictions Supports Network. Alert and Warning Systems Connected to E911 Telephone Geocode System to VoiceXML Automated Notification Application OASIS Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) 1.0 Introduced.

2 October 2007 Improving Rapid Emergency First Response with SOA 4 th SOA for E-Government Conference 4 Collaboratory Pilot Expanded at SICoP Public Meeting at the DoN CIO XML Business Standards Council 20 October 2005SICoPDoN SOA Introduced

2 October 2007 Improving Rapid Emergency First Response with SOA 4 th SOA for E-Government Conference 5 Collaboratory Pilot Expanded at SICoP Public Meeting at the DoN CIO XML Business Standards CouncilSICoPDoN Companies Added

2 October 2007 Improving Rapid Emergency First Response with SOA 4 th SOA for E-Government Conference 6 Collaboratory Grows, Evolves at 4 th Semantic Interop for E-Gov Conference 9-10 February 2006 Demonstration Refined

2 October 2007 Improving Rapid Emergency First Response with SOA 4 th SOA for E-Government Conference 7 Collaboratory Grows, Evolves at 4 th Semantic Interop for E-Gov Conference Practical Use of Ontology Highlighted

2 October 2007 Improving Rapid Emergency First Response with SOA 4 th SOA for E-Government Conference 8 Collaboratory Pilot Continues to Evolve at 1 st SOA for E-Government Conference 23 May 2006 SOA Registry-Repository Added

2 October 2007 Improving Rapid Emergency First Response with SOA 4 th SOA for E-Government Conference 9 Collaboratory Pilot Continues to Evolve at 1 st SOA for E-Government Conference SOA Registry-Repository Explained

2 October 2007 Improving Rapid Emergency First Response with SOA 4 th SOA for E-Government Conference 10 What are ‘Open’ Standards & Why are ‘Open” Standards Important? OPEN Means Openly Developed  Public Visibility From Inception Open Charter-Writing Process Goals, Objectives, Audience & Principles Explicit  Open Decision-Making Processes All Documents, Minutes, Discussions, Lists Available Votes Recorded and Posted OPEN Means Public Review & Comment  Public Review Invites Testing through Implementation  All Public Comments MUST be Addressed/Answered OPEN Means Public Can Criticize, Stimulate Revisions

2 October 2007 Improving Rapid Emergency First Response with SOA 4 th SOA for E-Government Conference 11 Importance of Open Standards Overview of OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee OASIS Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) 1.0 Approved March 2004 OASIS CAP 1.1 Approved October 2005 Lessons Learned:  Important to Provide Guidance for Implementation  Important to Develop Feedback Process for Next Versions OASIS Emergency Data Exchange Language Evolves from CAP Experience

2 October 2007 Improving Rapid Emergency First Response with SOA 4 th SOA for E-Government Conference 12 Importance of Open Standards Overview of OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee OASIS Emergency Data Exchange Language Distribution Element (EDXL-DE) 1.0 Approved May 2006 EDXL-Hospital Availability Exchange (EDXL- HAVE) moving to 2 nd 60-Day Public Review October 2007 EDXL-Resource Messaging (EDXL-RM) Moving to 2 nd 60-Day Public Review November- December 2007

2 October 2007 Improving Rapid Emergency First Response with SOA 4 th SOA for E-Government Conference 13 Importance of Open Standards Overview of OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee OASIS Emergency Data Exchange Language FAMILY Follows Pattern of ebXML, Web Services Security Specifications, and Others  EDXL Not Clearly Understood at Start  Standards Writing is also an Evolving Set of Practices  Need to Document Lessons Learned EDXL Reference Information Model (EDXL-RIM) will include Lessons Learned and Formalize the Methods and Techniques Developed for EDXL-DE, EDXL-HAVE and EDXL-RM for Next EDXL Specifications

2 October 2007 Improving Rapid Emergency First Response with SOA 4 th SOA for E-Government Conference 14 IPAWS Infrastructure from 3 rd SOA for E-Government Conference David Ellis’ Presentation: Trans-enterprise Service Grid

2 October 2007 Improving Rapid Emergency First Response with SOA 4 th SOA for E-Government Conference 15 IPAWS Infrastructure from 3 rd SOA for E-Government Conference David Ellis’ Presentation: Trans-enterprise Service Grid

2 October 2007 Improving Rapid Emergency First Response with SOA 4 th SOA for E-Government Conference 16 IPAWS Infrastructure from 3 rd SOA for E-Government Conference David Ellis’ Presentation: EDXL-DE is Key for ROUTING

2 October 2007 Improving Rapid Emergency First Response with SOA 4 th SOA for E-Government Conference 17 Lessons in Building Standards from EDXL Family Evolution Alerting and Warning  Lessons from CAP In Absence of other Needed Standards, Practitioners WILL Attempt to USE Existing Standard for Needed Functions Be Clear About WHAT a Standard CAN or IS INTENDED to do Routing and Secure Network Considerations  Lessons from EDXL-DE Develop Requirements Systematically with Practitioners & Subject Matter Experts Carefully Select Use-Cases for Defining Requirements

2 October 2007 Improving Rapid Emergency First Response with SOA 4 th SOA for E-Government Conference 18 Lessons in Building Standards from EDXL Family Evolution Reporting  Lessons from EDXL-HAVE Resist Persuasive Arguments that ANY Candidate Specification is Ready for Approval as Standard Start with Requirements from Use-Cases that can be Traced through Specification Messaging (Event-Driven Message Exchange Patterns)  Lessons from EDXL-RM Formalize Requirements in Separate Document (Started with a Candidate Specification, then Extracted Requirements) Specifications are Concrete Expressions of Abstract Principles

2 October 2007 Improving Rapid Emergency First Response with SOA 4 th SOA for E-Government Conference 19 Conclusions & Challenges EGov REQUIRES Open Standards  OMB Mandates Adoption of Voluntary Consensus Standards  Standards MUST Meet Use-Case-based Requirements SOA for EGov MUST be Practical  Standards for Intra-Agency/Dept., Inter-Agency/Dept. & Inter-Jurisdiction Needed  Standards SHOULD Provide Conformance Criteria & Testing if Possible  Results SHOULD be Measurable  Regular Pulse Checks & Satisfaction Surveys Needed SOA for EGov SHOULD Develop Culture of Continuous Improvement—Steady, Consistent, Dependable Event-Driven Architecture Necessary for Emergency Response Systems  MUST be Designed with Specific Message Exchange Patterns