Federal Register: NOTICES Meetings:: Public Safety Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Public Workshop for Organizations Interested in Utilization of VoIP for Communication Between Public Safety Personnel

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institute of Standards and Technology

NOTICE: NOTICES

ACTION: Meetings:

DOCUMENT ACTION: Notice of Public Workshop.

SUBJECT CATEGORY: Public Safety Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Public Workshop for Organizations Interested in Utilization of VoIP for Communication Between Public Safety Personnel

DATES: The workshop will be held on September 9-11, 2008, from 8:30 a.m. until 5 p.m. PT.

DOCUMENT 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 911, 2008, at Twisted Pair Communications in Seattle, Washington. The purpose of the first two days of the meeting (September 910, 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 publicsafety 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, sameday 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.

SUMMARY: Public Safety Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Public Workshop for Organizations Interested in Utilization of VoIP for Communication between Public Safe,

SUPPLEMENTAL 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 practitionerraised issues related to VoIPenabled solutions being marketed to the public safety community as an ``interoperability solution,'' yet these solutions will not interoperate with VoIPenabled 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, email address and phone number to Ms. Stacey Breitberg and she will provide you with logistics information for the meeting. Ms. Breitberg's email address is
stacey.breitberg@twistpair.com and her phone number is (206) 8122367. [[Page 46873]]

All attendees are required to submit their name, time of arrival, email address and phone number to Ms. Breitberg.

Dated: August 5, 2008.
James M. Turner,
Deputy Director.
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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.