Multi-Agency Incident Transfer (MAIT)

by British APCO

MAIT was created to solve the problem of exchanging incdents between agency control rooms (emergency dispatch). In line with the UK Government's Open Standards Principles, MAIT is a standard for sharing data between local emergency services in the UK

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Assessment

Open License Yes
Transferable to Other Jurisdictions No

Many of the elements in the schema are specific to the UK. A similar standard could be adopted for another sovereignty
Stakeholder Participation Yes

The standard is created by BAPCO, an organization that represents Public Safety Communications Officers, who are the stakeholders in different public safety agencies
Consensus-Based Governance No

Any changes to the standard are made by the BAPCO MAIT Standards group. Conflicts can be submitted to them but all publishing/edits are centralized
Extensions Yes

There is a section in the documentation specifying the structure of any additional elements (extensions to the schema)
Human Readable Yes

XML schema has relevant element names
Machine Readable Yes

Data standard specifies XML notation
Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data Yes

Incident Creation Messages are sent induvidually between agencies and contain a timestamp
Metadata No