[Federal Register: August 12, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 156)]
[Notices]
[Page 46872-46873]
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) Public Workshop
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 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 working group on September 9-11, 2008, at
Twisted Pair Communications in Seattle, Washington. The purpose of the
first two days of the meeting (September 9-10, 2008) is to bring
manufacturers together to establish voice over IP (VoIP) connectivity
between radio communication system bridging devices. The purpose of the
last day of the working group (September 11, 2008) is to bring
practitioners and industry together to discuss the development of an
enhanced 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 2,
2008. 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 9-11, 2008, from 8:30
a.m. until 5 p.m. PT.
ADDRESSES: The roundtable will be held in the conference room of
Twisted Pair Communications, 3131 Elliott Ave., Suite 200, Seattle, WA
98121.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dereck Orr, (303) 497-5400, e-mail:
dereck.orr@nist.gov. The mailing address is 325 Broadway, Mail Stop
ITS.P, 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 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
(CCI), 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 2, 2008, in order to attend. Please submit your
name, time of arrival, e-mail address and phone number to Ms. Stacey
Breitberg and she will provide you with logistics information for the
meeting. Ms. Breitberg's e-mail address is
stacey.breitberg@twistpair.com and her phone number is (206) 812-2367.
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All attendees are required to submit their name, time of arrival,
e-mail address and phone number to Ms. Breitberg.
Dated: August 5, 2008.
James M. Turner,
Deputy Director.
[FR Doc. E8-18618 Filed 8-11-08; 8:45 am]
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