[Federal Register: August 10, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 154)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Public Safety Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Roundtable for
Organizations Interested in Utilization of VoIP for Communication
Between Public Safety Personnel
AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Department of
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of public workshop.
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SUMMARY: The Office of Law Enforcement Standards (OLES), in
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cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security's Office of
Interoperability and Compatibility (DHS/OIC) and representatives of the
public safety community, will hold a public roundtable on September 11-
12, 2007, at the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (ITS) in
Boulder, CO. The purpose of the roundtable is to discuss the
development of an implementation profile for VoIP between radio system
bridging solutions. The results of this and subsequent roundtable
discussions will be used in the development of specific implementation
profiles for VoIP usage in public-safety owned systems.
There is no charge for the roundtable; however, because of meeting
room restrictions, advance registration is mandatory and limited to
three representatives from any one organization. There will be no on-
site, same-day registration. The registration deadline is September 4,
2007. Please note registration and admittance instructions and other
additional information under the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of
this notice.
DATES: The workshop will be held on September 11-12, 2007, from 8:30
a.m. until 5 p.m. MT.
ADDRESSES: The roundtable will be held in the Radio Building (Building
1), Room 1103/1105, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80305.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dereck Orr, (303) 497-5342, e-mail:
dereck.orr@nist.gov. The mailing address is 325 Broadway, Building 1,
Wing 2, Room 2209, Boulder, CO 80305. Information regarding OLES can be
viewed at http://www.eeel.nist.gov/oles/ Information regarding DHS/OIC can be viewed at http://www.safecomprogram.gov. Information regarding
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ITS can be viewed at http://www.its.bldrdoc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In response to a request from the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Science and Technology
Directorate (S&T), Command, Control and Interoperability Division
(C2I), Office of Interoperability and Compatibility (OIC), the NIST
Office of Law Enforcement Standards (OLES) is developing protocol
implementation profiles for VoIP communications between public safety
personnel.
The request from OIC germinated from practitioner-raised issues
related to VoIP-enabled solutions being marketed to the public safety
community as an ``interoperability solution,'' yet these solutions will
not interoperate with VoIP-enabled solutions from other manufacturers
making the same claim. The proper way to address this situation is to
develop a protocol implementation profile (or set of profiles) that
contains the minimum standards, parameters and values necessary to
ensure that solutions developed by independent organizations will
interoperate with each other. This roundtable discussion is intended to
lead to the development of a protocol implementation profile for VoIP-
enabled radio system bridging solutions.
Anyone wishing to attend this meeting must register by close of
business September 4, 2007, in order to attend. Please submit your
name, time of arrival, e-mail address and phone number to Ms. Kathy
Mayeda and she will provide you with logistics information for the
meeting. Ms. Mayeda's e-mail address is kmayeda@its.bldrdoc.gov and her
phone number is (303) 497-5890.
All attendees are required to submit their name, time of arrival,
e-mail address and phone number to Ms. Mayeda. Non-U.S. citizens must
also submit their country of citizenship, title, employer/sponsor and
address.
Dated: August 6, 2007.
James M. Turner,
Deputy Director.
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