NGES: Next Generation Emergency Services Subcommittee

Meeting Schedule, Dial-Information and Virtual Meeting Links

*** Please note that beginning in January 2009, all NGES documents will be available on the ATIS Contribution Registration Database (CRD) and will NOT be available at the link below. ***

NGES Baselines and Contributions

NGES Subcommittee Co-Chairs:

• Anand Akundi, Telcordia, aakundi@telcordia.com , (732) 699-6031
• Christian Militeau, Intrado, christian.militeau@intrado.com, (720) 864-5245

Technical Editor: Tom Breen , AT&T, tom.breen@att.com, (404) 927-2577

Mission: The ESIF NG Emergency Services (NGES) Subcommittee coordinates emergency services needs and issues with and among SDOs and industry forums/committees, within and outside ATIS, and develops emergency services (such as E9-1-1) standards, and other documentation related to advanced (i.e., Next Generation) emergency services architectures, functions, and interfaces for communications networks. The Subcommittee has an emphasis on standards development as it relates to North American communication networks, in coordination with the development of standards activities to include relative ATIS committees (e.g., PTSC), ITU, 3GPP, ETSI and NENA.

Activities, Role and Responsibilities:

1. Investigate all actual and potential SDO or SDO-like groups, in the US and globally (3GPP, ETSI, ITU, etc.) as to their connection or potential connection to standards development work that does or could affect NG9-1-1, and what their roles and actions are in the emergency communications services arena.
2. Identify and establish liaison work with and from those groups with ATIS (ESIF, NGN Focus Group, PTSC, WTSC, etc.) and NENA, to handle requirements, analysis, design, and SDO standards development work coordination.
3. Relay to other SDOs basic “keep in mind and act on” issues, such as the need for callback and caller location capabilities in future development of devices and new services (WiFi & WiMAX) that affect emergency communications, such as the E9-1-1 service.
4. Address the needs identified in the Gap Analysis from the ATIS NGN Framework, Part III in order to:

• Formulate the NG Emergency Services standard architecture based on the IMS/NGN standards
• Develop NENA’s i3 Stage 2/3 standard in the context of the IMS/NGN standards
• Identify gaps and provide input to the IETF (through established liaisons such as PTSC) for Detailed Interface Design of Protocols in the context of the ATIS NGN Framework (Call Routing and Location Determination) for NG Emergency Services
• Provide NG Emergency Services input to 3GPP Service Architecture 1/2 working groups for consideration into 3GPP Technical Report (TR) 23.837 and Technical Specification (TS) 23.167
• Coordinate joint reviews with ETSI EMTEL on NG Emergency Services for a global standard coordination effort between NG9-1-1 (North America) and NG1-1-2 (European Union) emergency services initiatives
• Other Activities, Role and Responsibilities may be identified as work unfolds

Subcommittee Work Plan & Deliverables:

• Serve as the coordination point within ATIS for all work in the IP domain that may have an impact on, or be impacted by E9-1-1, or emergency services in general
• Develop NG Emergency Services Functional Architecture Specifications based on industry input such as the NENA NG9-1-1 (i3) Requirements and Functional Design, for input into the IMS/NGN standards (6-12 months)
• Develop NG Emergency Services Design Recommendations based on the above document (6-12 months)

Participants: Open to all ATIS members, and when applicable the subcommittee activities will be accessible to other organizations or groups (e.g., NENA members) who have skillsets ESIF needs to achieve the goals of the subcommittee.

Task Force 34 (TF-34)
Emergency Services Network Interfaces Task Forces
NGES Adopted the Task Force 34 Work in October 2006
To Access TF-34 Documents Click Here

Final Drafts of EISI, EISI ALI, and ESMI for full ANS Balloting.

General Reference Documents/Links:

3GPP i2 Integration Presentation
3GPP IMS Workshop Presentation
ATIS Next Generation Network Gap Analysis
ESIF 16 IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Overview ( 2.74 MB file)
Plenary Contribution PL-001: Next Generation Emergency Services (NGES) – Ad Hoc Group Meeting Report (2/14/06)
NENA NG E9-1-1 Program
Flexible LIS-ALE Protocol (FLAP)
HTTP Enabled Location Delivery (HELD)

Outgoing Correspondence: Liaison Letter from ESIF Next Generation Emergency Services (NGES) Subcommittee to Industry, Public Safety and Government Organizations (4/14/06)

Draft Meeting Notes: Please contact April Nowicki at (202) 434-8856 or anowicki@atis.org with any questions or changes to the meeting notes. All NGES documents, including meeting notes, are available on the ATIS Contribution Registration Database (CRD).

Requests for changes should be sent to April Nowicki at anowicki@atis.org

Final Meeting Notes

Cross-Standards Development Organizations (SDO) Conference Call to Discuss Next Generation Emergency Services (4/14/06)