unencrypted. A short discussion ensued.
Member Hermes had a couple of suggestions regarding the policy language. She said she
would like to see a definition of Interop/Interoperability at the beginning of the document,
and then for it to be consistent throughout the rest of the document. Secondly, under the
section titled “InterOp Talk groups” she believed it should be noted that the PSAP
Telecommunicators would also disable the patch. Member Hermes also noted if the
Interops are not encrypted, when the Telecommunicators are patching, they will break
that encryption if it is an encrypted channel. Lastly, Member Hermes said under “Special
Use” on Page 2, she would like the term “adjacent agencies” to be clarified. Ms. Zerwin
said typically adjacent agencies would be anyone not part of the system but touching one
of the agencies that is. She said it could be changed to say “adjacent outside agencies”.
Member Baarman suggested “Non-DEDIRS Members”, and Member Hermes concurred.
Mr. Connolly said he and ACDC Director Srejma once spoke about a “calling channel”
that the PSAPS can use, similar to NORCOM. He said right now they go on IFERN and
ask for mutual aid. He questioned if something separate is needed from DUCALL or if
DUCALL could function in that manner, but that the PSAPs may not want to monitor a
second channel. He said he believed that is where the Interops 911 language came from.
Member Johl said the requests are tied to IFERN on the Fire side. Member Baarman said
he would like to keep the operational changes to a minimum.
Ms. Zerwin stated that the only question she had is operationally the use is at the PSAP
level, so she wasn’t sure that this fits into this policy because this is an access policy and
what they are talking about is use but it should be spelled out somewhere.
Member
Baarman suggested stating what the intent of the channel is in the policy, but to leave it to
the PSAPs as to how they want to handle it.
Mr. Connolly asked if she was talking about how the InterOps are used or assigned? Ms.
Zerwin responded that sometimes a policy can try to do too many things and then it gets
confusing. She stated after the InterOp talk group language in the policy, they could add
a paragraph on DUCALL and its use as a point to point talkgroup between PSAPs. There
was consensus on the basic idea and that language could be added for review.
Ms. Zerwin said she would take the clean copy that had been posted and make the
changes for dissemination of the policy for further comments.
Member Johl made a motion to table ETS-R-0038-23, Policy 911-005.2, seconded by
Member Baarman. On voice vote, motion carried.
Attachments:
TABLED
Pat Johl
RESULT:
MOVER: