Requirements Outline

Friends,

After a detailed review of the documents associated with the Canadian, US IPAWS and Australian CAP Profiles, I have developed the first draft of an outline format to be considered by the subcommittee. The purpose of this exercise was to identify a format that could be used to capture the requirements for a Countries particular constraints to be considered in their National implementation of the CAP Standard. (Don’t forget to consider how this might apply to an enterprise or organization.) This information would then be provided to the SC as a contribution from which the Profile would be developed.

Discussions during our last call raised two very valid points – one, how will the resulting profile document be maintained and under what authority; and two, couldn’t/shouldn’t there be different levels of “endorsement” that OASIS might consider with respect to the profile documents? These are questions I agreed to take to OASIS staff and report back to the group on the Wed call or before on the list. We do need to understand that any deviation from the TC process would likely take TAB approval and be out of scope for this exercise. I do think that this is worth pursuing due to the unique nature of the CAP Standard and its relevance and necessary interoperability over National boundaries.

You will note in the outline there are opportunities to define the goal of the organization seeking profile guidance to be defined; the maintenance process to be provided; the ownership, copyright and trademark issues to be provided; interests by joint standards bodies identified, as well as conformance and testing topics. While the International Event list is not a specific topic in the outline it would be described in 3.5 and other sections. My next step will be to go over these issues with OASIS staff to see what guidance they can provide given the uniqueness of the CAP Profile efforts.

During the call on Wed, I will go over each of these outline points, relate the OASIS staff guidance (they may attend the call as well) and take any input on the outline itself.

Regards,

Elysa

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