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Subject: RE: [CAP] How do you properly indicate "Nothing Interesting?"
At 8:46 AM -0500 3/3/04, Darrell Ernst wrote: >The discussion going on here is a healthy one. It is also illustrative, to >wit, it implies the need for some form of "implementer's guide." Absolutely. An implementation guide is on the workplan for the OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee. It's been delayed largely, IMHO, by a simple lack of member staff time to do the work. There's also been a parallel effort within the "TC" to address infrastructure issues, but that's not as far along yet. As we've seen, the CAP message format can be applied in a lot of contexts, and a lot of the implementation questions have as much to do with the particular transport environment as with the CAP payload itself. At that level we're still learning by experience.. and given the urgency of the need for improved coordination in homeland security and public safety, and the inevitable diversity of systems in a large and open society, I'm not sure there's any other way it could be. Now that the initial specification is out for a full OASIS vote and more folks are experimenting with it, we're getting the benefit of a lot of fresh eyes on the problem. Those inputs and conversations will be crucial in surfacing issues that need to be better addressed or just better explained. I'm hoping this email list will continue to serve as a mechanism for connecting the larger community of implementers and users in an open give-and-take with the folks who're doing the formal standards work. - Art
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