[Date Prev] | [Thread Prev] | [Thread Next] | [Date Next] -- [Date Index] | [Thread Index] | [Elist Home]
Subject: [emergency] Principles underlying Requirements
I would like to offer a relatively simple set of principles that may help to focus deliberations on Requirements. Although such principles may be almost "obvious", my sense is that we would do well to agree on general principles before thrashing out detailed technical agreements. The attached two-page document was adopted on July 12, 2002 among the participants in the Disaster Management e-Government initiative. The document lays out in general terms an approach to interoperability, such as a statement that "interoperability agreements must be driven by specific needs as they are identified at the interfaces among active participants". The agreement also asserts five more specific principles (including the applicable international standards): 1. Avoid non-standard data syntaxes 2. Register the semantics of shared data elements 3. Document service interfaces in a standard way 4. Implement the standard interface for information discovery 5. Implement the standard interfaces for geospatial data The document concludes with a brief discussion of some key requirements under United States public policy, which are very pertinent whenever U.S. Federal government information is entailed. Eliot
Attachment:
principles.rtf
Description: RTF file
Eliot Christian echristian@usgs.gov 703-648-7245 FAX 703-648-7112 US Geological Survey, 802 National Center, Reston VA 20192
[Date Prev] | [Thread Prev] | [Thread Next] | [Date Next] -- [Date Index] | [Thread Index] | [Elist Home]
Powered by eList eXpress LLC