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Subject: Re: [emergency-cap-profiles] Definition of "Profile"
Regrettably life on the technical frontier is rarely so tidy. Iif we indulge in premature rules about things we don't yet understand, we risk inadvertently tying our own hands for later. And to what end? It seems like we're doing fine in terms of identifying and harmonizing the collection of constraints that comprise this Profile. I suspect by the time we're done with the substance we'll find that the form... how to document it... is pretty obvious. Jacob asks, "Can a CAP profile be a subset of CAP?" Yes, that's what a standard profile is, by the cited definition and by every usage of the term I've ever encountered. It's accomplished by asserting a set of constraints and requirements which should or must be met within the broader constraints of the CAP spec itself. Thus messages that conform to the profile are a subset of all possible CAP messages. How exactly those additional constraints are expressed may vary depending on their nature, and I'm not of the belief that the format is of the essence. Really, I'd urge us not to fall into the trap of making this more complicated than it actually is. - Art
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