NENA Issues NG9-1-1 Conformance Testing RFI

NENA has released a Request For Information regarding plans for an NG9-1-1 Conformance Testing service. NENA intends to gather information about vendor capabilities, approach, and experience relevant to testing the conforming behavior of NG9-1-1 systems and services relative to NENA and other applicable industry standards.

This RFI is intended to elicit responses from interested parties, including customers, vendors, and testing organizations, on:

• What it would take, should it decide to move forward, to put in place an additional, expanded and formal process of conformance testing to complement the ICE process;
• The basic structure, format, and organization of a conformance testing program; and
• How a conformance testing program would provide validation to all stakeholders that any solution advertised as "NENA-standards-compliant" is indeed "NENA-standards-compliant."

The RFI is an information gathering tool to aid NENA in the process of deciding whether or not to develop and support an industry standard method for Standards Conformance Testing (SCT) using, at a minimum, the NENA developed NG9-1-1 series of standards.

NENA will make a decision on whether or not to release an RFP based in part on the information received as a result of this RFI. Questions can be directed to NENA's Technical Director Roger Hixson.

Responses are due by June 29.

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