CAP FEEDS Question about use of ATOM vice EDXL-DE [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

UNCLASSIFIED

A question has been raised by an Australian CAP stakeholder from a State-based Rural Fire Service in relation to the focus on Atom and RSS within the Example Practices: CAP Feeds document.

The Australian stakeholder is seeking to clarify whether OASIS continues to recommend the use of EDXL-DE and has asked me to seek clarification from OASIS regarding the following questions:

1) Does release of the information in the OASIS “Example Practices: CAP Feeds” document mean that CAP Users should retire plans to use EDXL-DE feeds?

2) The Example Practices: CAP Feeds document lists all the benefits of using RSS, but then proceeds to recommend putting CAP into an Atom feed. Why is the focus on use of ATOM vice EDXL-DE?

3) The Example Practices: CAP Feeds document also seems to presume that only a single alert is found within each CAP XML file, so that an RSS or Atom (news) item can link directly to that (single alert) XML file. This does not seem desirable so further clarification about this focus would be appreciated.

I would like to request a formal answer to these questions be released through the Emergency Management Adoption TC if possible, given that TC is the published authority for the CAP Feeds document.

Regards,

Greg Trott

CAP-AU Custodian for the Australian Government standard for Common Alerting Protocol

Australian Government Attorney-General's Department

Download the CAP-AU-STD from www.em.gov.au/CapAuStd

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