Aspen Reference
"Stove pipe data messaging standards efforts should be actively discouraged by the federal and state governments. Funders and decision makers need to push such program initiators to think about communicating with the overall safety universe, rather than just within narrower confines such as hospital to hospital, or CAD (Computer Aided Dispatch system) to CAD.35 The OASIS EDXL DE was developed for exactly this purpose. It is intended as a common routing “header” so that all emergency messages look the same to the wide variety of middleware systems the process and route them - and to every individual agency application that receives them. Then there will be a wide variety of payloads serving specific purposes such as public warning (CAP), burglar alarms (the IJIS/APCO project), law enforcement (a variety of IEPDs are being developed by Global), traffic (IEEE emergency messages), resources (see EDXL Resources drafts under consideration by OASIS, and the HAVE draft standard discussed above), car crashes (the Vehicular Emergency Data Set), and so on."