[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 156 (Tuesday, August 12, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46872-46873]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-18618]


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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: 
[email protected]. 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 
[email protected] 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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