**INTERDEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE FOR METEOROLOGICAL SERVICES AND SUPPORTING
RESEARCH (ICMSSR)**

**COMMITTEE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND COMMUNICATIONS
(CEISC)**

**JOINT ACTION GROUP FOR XML AND WEB SERVICES**

**- Agenda -**

**Meeting:** 2008-01

**Date/Time:** April 2, 2008 (9:30 a.m. EDT) -- April 4, 2008 (12:30
p.m. EDT)

**Location:** NOAA NWS, SSMC 2 Room 10246 and WEBEX

**[April 2, 2008]{.underline} [Pre-Meeting]{.underline}**

9:30 - 9:45 [Why are We Here]{.underline}

-   Eric Wise and Bob Bunge (JAG/XMLWS Cochairs)

9:45 - 12:00 [Presentation Development]{.underline}

12:00 - 1:00 [Lunch]{.underline}

1:00 - 4:30 [Presentation Development]{.underline}

**[April 3, 2008]{.underline} [Pre-Meeting]{.underline}**

9:30 - 12:00 [Presentation Development]{.underline}

12:00 - 1:00 [Lunch]{.underline}

**[JAG-XMLWS Meeting 2008-01]{.underline}**

1:00 - 1:15 [Opening Remarks]{.underline}

-   Eric Wise and Bob Bunge (JAG/XMLWS Cochairs)

1:15 -- 2:30 [Review and Update the Current Presentation]{.underline}

2:30 -- 3:30 [WMO 101]{.underline}

-   Jeff Ator (NOAA/NCEP, U.S. Rep on the WMO Expert Team for Data
    Representation and Codes)

3:30 -- 4:30 [Review and Update the Current Presentation]{.underline}

**[April 4, 2008]{.underline}**

9:30 - 12:30 [Finalize the Presentation]{.underline}

12:30 [Adjourn]{.underline}

**[ACCESS LIST]{.underline}**

I have sent an email to the Visitors Access address.

**Meeting Title: Joint Action Group for XML (JAG/XML)**

Dates: Three Day Meeting (April 2 -- 4, 2008)

Location: SSMC2 Room 10246

NOAA/NWS Focal Points: Mr. Tim Hopkins 301-713-1570 x129
Timothy.hopkins@noaa.gov

Alternate Mr. Robert Bunge -- 301-713-1381 -- Robert.Bunge@noaa.gov

[Non-NOAA Attendees]{.underline}:

Mr. Eric Wise (DOD) Air Force

Mr. David Pace (DOT) Federal Aviation Administration

Mr. Philip Vinson (DOD) Navy

**[WEBEX INFO]{.underline}**

Virtual Meeting Information:

<https://nws.webex.com/>

Follow the link.

Search for \"jag/xml\"

Choose the appropriate day.

Use the phone number and passcode in the information for the meeting
selected.

**[Dial in Only INFO]{.underline}**

Date: Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Meeting number: 555 457 600

Teleconference: Telephone Number 877-715-8144

Passcode 478825

Date: Thursday, April 3, 2008

Meeting number: 557 233 888

Teleconference: Telephone Number 877-715-8144

Passcode 478825

Date: Friday, April 4, 2008

Meeting number: 558 700 908

Teleconference: Telephone Number 877-715-8144

Passcode 478825

Working Points:

Q: Do we turn in a paper or a presentation or both?

The first WMO meeting of the Expert Team on the Assessment of Data
Representation Systems (ET-ADRS) is going to be held in the Washington
DC area, April 23-25, 2008.

<http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/WDM/ET-ADRS-1/Documents.html>

Q: Do we want to make any recommendations about Scope changes?

CBS requested its Management Group to establish an Expert Team within
the OPAG-ISS for assessing advantages and disadvantages, including
implications (need for defining standardization, data processing
development and integration, costs and benefits: flexibility,
compression, feasibility of implementation, etc.), of different data
representation systems (e.g. BUFR, CREX, XML, NetCDF, HDF) for use in
real time operational international exchanges between NMHSs and in
transmission of information to users outside the NMHSs. The Expert Team
should develop recommendations on the most appropriate system depending
on the type of exchange applications and report on the possible impacts
of its findings on the migration to table-driven code forms.

Q: Fred, we are not on the agenda? --from Bob Bunge

We will have to do what in WMO speak is an Inf-1 document, basically and
administrative information note. We have a lot of material to cover so
I\'m going to take the Chair\'s prerogative and start the meeting
earlier than normal on the first day. This should be no problem since
most everyone is in the Hotel. I will discuss meeting organization will
review document status set the schedule and around 9 or 9:30 will have
welcoming remarks. There will be no direct reference to a U.S.
presentation on the agenda. This would be inappropriate. First the
current agenda is only a wag thrown together by the secretariat months
ago as a holding place. Simon and I as co-Chairs and Pierre Kerherve,
our Secretariat rep are developing the agenda. WMO agendas are topic
oriented. We will have both an agenda, an explanatory memo to the agenda
and a document list. Members, then submit documents against topic areas.
In some cases, documents are shoe horned into close or related topic
areas. At the opening of the meeting we will discuss where things fall
the work plan and the document list and make adjustments as needed. As
each area is covered presenters will have the opportunity to introduce
their documents. They can do this by simply discussing the document in
plenary, going through it as a presentation on screen or by giving a
presentation (ppt) prepared on the subject matter. As the U.S. rep you
will have an opportunity to make or lead as many documents or
presentations as we wish to put together within reason. We can invite
someone to provide a related presentation on our behalf. I will put
together a guide with more specifics. It\'s a process that works fairly
well and not nearly as bureaucratic as it sounds. I have added Jeff Ator
and Brent Gordon to this Email both have some experience in WMO, Jeff
especially since he represents the U.S. on the ET-DRC group. I hope Jeff
will join this meeting for its full time as he also is the chair of the
OFCM codes group. Jeff can provide additional insight into WMO meeting
protocol and would be useful to have on the telcons since I\'m less
available. -- From Fred Branski.